Moral relativism

Uncensored2008 said:
I find it difficult to believe you have ever read Kant, Hummer.

But of course the concept of the "Greater Good" is not as you claim. In fact @Cypress is in line with Kant on this, as his "white lie" would create the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
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That is utilitarianism. Something Kant argued against.
 
Hume said:
Not really, no. That is just the Bill of Rights, amendments.
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The Founding Fathers believed that our rights are inherent, not granted. The Constitution wasn't written to grant rights that are inherent.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
 
ZenMode said:
The Founding Fathers believed that our rights are inherent, not granted. The Constitution wasn't written to grant rights that are inherent.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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You do know that is not the Constitution.
 
Uncensored2008 said:
You'd do even less harm by not being a Nazi democrat in the first place.

The Jews are in Israel, and you campaign for those who want to kill them and take their country for the glory of Muhammad.

I don't know if you actually attend pro-Hamas riots, but I do know you support and promote them here.

Don't pretend you are any different than the average Nazi in 1940 was, because you're not.
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Jesus admonishes you to refrain from lying.
 
ZenMode said:
The Founding Fathers believed that our rights are inherent, not granted. The Constitution wasn't written to grant rights that are inherent.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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You do know that is not the Constitution.
 
Hume said:
Jefferson wrote the Declaration.
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I don't know what to tell you. What I'm saying is neither new nor controversial. The founding fathers believed in unalienable rights. The Bill of Rights, which is part of the Constitution, is worded the way it is to make it clear that it's not intended to grant rights, it's intended to limit government from infringing on our inherent rights. That's why is says things like "Congress shall make no law" and "shall not be infringed".
 
ZenMode said:
I don't know what to tell you. What I'm saying is neither new nor controversial. The founding fathers believed in unalienable rights. The Bill of Rights, which is part of the Constitution, is worded the way it is to make it clear that it's not intended to grant rights, it's intended to limit government from infringing on our inherent rights. That's why is says things like "Congress shall make no law" and "shall not be infringed".
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Constitution is about how a federal government is formed.
 
Melchizedek=Tecumseh said:
You're 30 years behind times! In urban America lots of people are trying to live on Minimum wage or just above Minimum wage!
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In many states, they have raised the local "minimum wage" to a point where it is above the value of labor. When that happens, jobs disappear as they are no longer profitable to employers. If that weren't the case, then raising the minimum wage to say $50 an hour would be acceptable, but it isn't.

That said, what does that have to do with slavery?
 
ZenMode said:
Again, the Bill of Rights is part of the Constitution.
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My point is, the overwhelming text of the Constitution is about the formation of a government.

The Bill of Rights were not ratified (1791) until three years after the Constitution (1788) was ratified.
 
Hume said:
My point is, the overwhelming text of the Constitution is about the formation of a government.

The Bill of Rights were not ratified (1791) until three years after the Constitution (1788) was ratified.
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The question was about our rights. Again, nothing I said is new or controversial.
 
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