Quote Originally Posted by slapout9 View Post
Some heavy duty stuff there
Yup... probably PO'd a lot of people too . Actually, it came out of an exercise in trying to get people (students) to come up with a definition of "absolute truth" and asking them how they grounded it empirically such that they could convince other students. The "God-given rights" is the worst, since there is no universal agreement on either "God" or "rights"; lots of religious wars, genocides and fights over both of them. Just as an example, it is patently "obvious" that there is a God-given right to kill any female family member who is raped (just ask the Taliban).