Question about what Obama just said.

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Seriously. People really believe in 'rights?' How does one define the right to 'life'?

-As some has claimed its the freedom from someone else 'from killing you' - of course this would simply be an interpretation as the declaration is full of elevated and intentionally vague language.
-Of course one could argue that to have 'life' one needs food, water, shelter, clothing, medicine etc.

Apparently the right to 'life' isn't a right to 'life' but a 'right' to be left alone- which is a bit redundant because liberty also indicates one should be left alone.

Buying into the declaration of independence as the canon of basic rights is nonsensical.

I would argue that all 'basic rights,' which were endowed by man's creator, are bullshit and totally mutable, as all should know.

If we can make up rights, or priveleges (as long as the government and people can sustain them) we should make up more 'rights' that are better for society as a whole.

The right to a free and good education (benefits society as a whole), a right to healthcare (benefits society as a whole. This will become apparent once we have another 1918 style influenza pandemic) and we could list other things as well like clean water and food.

The whole concept of rugged individualism and the self-made man is quite nonsensical. It's like saying Einstein or Newton are solely responsible for their own genius. It gives waaaaaaaaaaaaay to much credit to the individual. The same is true for this almost idolatrous worship of entrepreneurs who somehow had the gusto and a particularly unique talent to get where they were.

Bullshit. It's luck. They're outliers and fortunes are made upon the backs of others (occasionally the relationship is not so hierarchical and more symbiotic between boss and worker), so any individual talent or 'hard work' is the delusions of a human mind trying to rationaliz inequity and its own success. This same rationalization process occurs when someone gets cancer, dies in a car accident (caused by someone else) or just has an unfortunate date with fate (I mean chance but fate sounds better).

There has to be a reason Bill Gates is soooo rich. Nope, there isn't for the most part. (Of course there are people who 'don't want to work,' but for the most part the sense of individual achievement is an overblown self-pleasing action).

This turned into a rambling mess.

Here's another one I love. "You're taxing achievement"-Nope, your taxing luck. Not to mention if these self-important egotistical rich individuals who have the delusion that somehow they are the keystones of society ever decided to go Galt (as I continually here on fox news), there will be people ready to take their places and take that entrepreneurial risk.

Would we have a 'drug problem' if people weren't willing to take risks for profit? (They say its easy money but it comes with a lot of risk, investment banking is 'easy money' but comes with very little personal risk - who's a more daring entrepreneur?)

Nevermind. Forget all of this if you took the time to read this.