canndo
Well-Known Member
I would go a step further. The concept of inalienable (the word "unalienable" is new to me and dysphonious with its use of a Germanic prefix on a Latin root) rights was revolutionary in its day. The only reason it's in our cultural vocabulary is because two of those revolutions (USA, France; am I forgetting others?) "took".
But all human rights can be alienated, abridged or simply withheld, except for the one so-far truly inalienable: to die. All others require negotiation between individual and state. Jmo. cn
<edit> I may need to correct myself - Wiktionary sees a useful difference in the terminology. "Unalienable" seems to be a specialist term, "not transferable or assignable".
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inalienable
Careful reading of our Constitution reveals that your right to life, liberty and property cannot be taken from you without due process. Which means that WITH due process they can. Thus the only right you truely have is that due process. Now, the right to process is nonsenical if there is no government from which that due process is gotten. That being the case, Due process is actually not a God given and God ordained Right but one granted to you by... Government. In actuality the totality of your rights, are government issued.
I know this comes as a bitter pill to those who actually hold the idea that somehow God imbued each human with this set of rights. I will continue to spout the same high sounding logic because it sounds so much better and explains the way the Consitution is written (shall not be infringed, or shall not be abridged), but the reality is far different.
BTW, you don't have an unabridged right to die. This country frowns upon that "right" as well as in 49 states you cannot enlist the help of any other in order to excercise that right. So, unless you are physicaly and mentaly capable of taking your own life, you are shit out of luck.