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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Do people have an inherent right to live?
 
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Scrub-Niggurath
Nov 27, 2007

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And if so, why? What policies and costs are justified to keep people alive (housed, fed, free from pollution)?

If not, what laws are justified? Do we , as another poster put it: "live in a barbaric anarchy where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must"?

I've been grappling with this for years trying to justify why we take from some to provide for others, and aside from religious arguments I can't find a good reason why people have an inviolable right to live. What's it to you that someone else gets hurt?

In a vacuum no because in a vacuum of any organized society there's no such things as rights or property or laws or whatever making any discussion irrelevant.

Fortunately we don't exist in a total vacuum and we live in a society of civilized citizens where the right to live is one of the fundamental values in every major belief system in the world

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