The New Health Care Reform and the Rights of Man
The rights of man deal with man's morality. Rights seek answers to two questions: 'what is right' and 'what is wrong.'' (click) Two kind of rights exist. One group of rights are called natural rights and the other group of rights are called positive rights..
Thomas Paine (1731–1809) said that natural rights cannot be granted by any organization of people because this organization could revoke them. By revoking rights, man's rights would be reduced to privileges. (click) All natural rights are thus found only in those humans who enter into a social contract with each other. With a social contract, these organized citizens become sovereign, becomes a Union in which all citizens depend on each other, and produce a self-government. In the founding of the USA, the founders used John Locke's social contract, which is found in his famous book on 'Two Treatises of Government.' (click)
Paine says that this is the only way a self-government can come into existence. Accordingly, when the new health care reform passed on March 21, 2010, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said correctly that health care in the USA is a right, not a privilege. Positive rights are thus found only in nations in which a governing group of people can grant privileges and do not depend on each other.
However, the USA has developed a 'rights problem.' This problem began to develop after Abe Lincoln was assassinated. It seems that in the 20th century, a group of U.S. lawyers and Supreme Court justices agreed to reinterpret the Declaration of Independence. With their interpretations, the Declaration of Independence was reduced to an authority to engage in war with England. Their misinterpretations thus destroyed Locke's social contract that I discussed above. Yet, to any intelligent person, Locke's social contract is clearly defined in the first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence. Their misinterpretations are also destroying those natural rights, that are endowed to us by God. Some of these natural rights are 'certain unalienable Rights that among them are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.''
Although the Declaration of Independence was not destroyed and is still displayed in Washington, these incorrect misinterpretations are destroying our Union and are transforming our natural rights into privileges. Interestingly, these misinterpretations have also opened new, but wrong, views of our world by atheists, materialists, and deists.
Thomas Paine (1731–1809) said that natural rights cannot be granted by any organization of people because this organization could revoke them. By revoking rights, man's rights would be reduced to privileges. (click) All natural rights are thus found only in those humans who enter into a social contract with each other. With a social contract, these organized citizens become sovereign, becomes a Union in which all citizens depend on each other, and produce a self-government. In the founding of the USA, the founders used John Locke's social contract, which is found in his famous book on 'Two Treatises of Government.' (click)
Paine says that this is the only way a self-government can come into existence. Accordingly, when the new health care reform passed on March 21, 2010, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said correctly that health care in the USA is a right, not a privilege. Positive rights are thus found only in nations in which a governing group of people can grant privileges and do not depend on each other.
However, the USA has developed a 'rights problem.' This problem began to develop after Abe Lincoln was assassinated. It seems that in the 20th century, a group of U.S. lawyers and Supreme Court justices agreed to reinterpret the Declaration of Independence. With their interpretations, the Declaration of Independence was reduced to an authority to engage in war with England. Their misinterpretations thus destroyed Locke's social contract that I discussed above. Yet, to any intelligent person, Locke's social contract is clearly defined in the first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence. Their misinterpretations are also destroying those natural rights, that are endowed to us by God. Some of these natural rights are 'certain unalienable Rights that among them are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.''
Although the Declaration of Independence was not destroyed and is still displayed in Washington, these incorrect misinterpretations are destroying our Union and are transforming our natural rights into privileges. Interestingly, these misinterpretations have also opened new, but wrong, views of our world by atheists, materialists, and deists.
posted by George Shollenberger @ 9:09 AM
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