| richardhutnik said: You PERSONALLY are not able to argue from a rights-based framework if you personally aren't going to argue that a person has a right to life, but has a right to not be murdered. |
Uh... how is that? You have the right to be unmolested. That is the entire basis of "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness". Murder is certainly a deprivation of the right to life and thus of liberty.
Your problem is that you believe that the right to life means that you are entitled to be provided with a living. But if it is the case that you have the right to be provided with something, then you also have the right to deprive someone else of something.
I don't know what the Hunger Games is, but let's put it this way. There is nothing wrong with boxing, but there is something very wrong with someone punching someone who doesn't consent to be punched first.
