Discussion on Rights and Their Origins

Rights are an idea.

They're just imaginary.

They're a cute idea.

Cute. But that's all. Cute and fictional.

But if you think you do have rights,

let me ask you this.

Where do they come from?

People say, well, they come from God.

They're God-given rights.

Oh, fuck. Here we go again.

Here we go again.

The God excuse.

The last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

It came from God.

Anything we can't describe must have come from God.

Personally, folks, I believe that if your rights came from God,

He would have given you the right to some food every day,

and He would have given you the right to a roof over your head.

God would have been looking out for you.

God would have been looking out for you.

You know that?

He wouldn't have been worried about making sure you have a gun

so you can get drunk on Sunday night and kill your girlfriend's parents.

But let's say it's true.

Let's say God gave us these rights.

Why would He give us a certain number of rights?

The Bill of Rights of this country has 10 stipulations, okay?

10 rights.

And apparently God was doing sloppy work that week because

we've had to amend the Bill of Rights an additional 17 times.

So God forgot a couple of things, like slavery.

Just fucking slipped His mind.

But let's say God gave us the original 10.

He gave the British 13.

The British Bill of Rights has 13 stipulations.

The Germans have 29.

The Belgians have 25.

The Swedish have only 6.

And some people in the world have no rights at all.

What kind of a fucking goddamn God-given deal is that?

No rights at all?

Why would God give different people in different countries different numbers of different rights?

Boredom?

Amusement?

Bad arithmetic?

Do we find out at long last after all this time that

God is weak in math skills?

Doesn't sound like divine planning to me.

Sounds more like human planning.

Sounds more like one group trying to control another group.

In other words, business as usual in America.