badgenome on 14 August 2012
| richardhutnik said: Here is another one: Do people have a right to live? Or is life not a fundamental human right? If you then consider human life a right, and a person find that no one will help them, and they risk death, then would not them doing whatever is necessary to stay alive be justified? They can claim their right to live justified them stealing or squatting in property. Take the case of a child that was abandoned by their parents, and now fends on the streets for themselves, and steals and what not. If human life is a right, aren't they justified to do so? Or do you want to argue life is not a right people have? If life is not a right then, then what is a right? |
You have the right not to be murdered. You don't have a right to force other people to provide a living for you by sheer virtue of your need. Children are always a special case, and I don't think many people could fail to pity a child who resorts to stealing food to stay alive, but that doesn't make it ethically correct behavior even though it's certainly logical.
