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[throw_popcorn]

I approached my car with not a little love this morning. I am of the opinion that encouragement is uplifting to anything, even if it cant hear. My car started up right away and didn't even sputter! I drove it today and it didn't act very strange, just slightly cold....like its joints were stiff. I cancertainly understand that, I feel that way when

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[vlad3theimpaler]

It seems to me that it would be a basic right that all living beings are entitled to.

Glad to hear that your car is running better.

[addy74]

you should get one of those automatic car starter things. I'm glad it worked for you!!! :)

[codepoet]

Actually, if I recall correctly the original formulation was "Life, liberty and property." I don't remember when "pursuit of happiness" got thrown in the mix, though I imagine Wikipedia would tell me if I looked.

Yes, they're gifts from God -- as are all things -- but I think some such gifts can be called "rights", in this sense: we ought to protect them wherever possible, and (at the very least) we must not destroy them.

Life is foremost among these, because a man's other rights become moot when he dies. Yes, accidents happen (but they're tragic), and God has every right to call us away from this mortal coil -- but we don't, and that's the essence of how we should interpret "rights".

What do you think?

[foophile]

I think entitlement is a very interesting topic to look at from a religious perspective. To play the opposite side of the fence, I wonder if the "right" to life, love, and happiness has been something that we think we've been given a right to have. I happen to remember reading somewhere about how God's people were expected to suffer for their faith. And I've only read about the "right" to life, love, and property from fairly modern political philosophers like John Locke. I personally think that we're not really entitled to much of anything unless we are will to sacrifice and suffer for it. After all, it was this idea of 'entitlement' that has lead to the "sovernignity" behavior of the British that 'excused' them warring and conquering countries that were already inhabited. And lets not forget the excuses that were given to enslave Africans for the "happiness" of the colonists and Europeans.