badgenome said:
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. |
This is The Hunger Games series of novels (also was a movie that came out earlier this year):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games
The games itself consisted of each district in the world sending a boy and girl to fight to the death, with one winner. The entire system was built on humans executing each other with weapons. Your view of consent ruling over every other consideration provides no basis for education that consent or individuals intervening in order to stop certain conduct that can be argued, from a conservative viewpoint, to rot the moral foundation of society. You have no mechanism to be able to cry stop and you have everyone turning a blind eye to the suffering of others. It also doesn't inform or enlighten as to directions people can head, just to be concerned with one's own interest. Inheritantly it is selfish and in no way with keeping of traditional ethics that call for love and charity. It is an heartless world of Objectivism actually, where we honor the special and have the ordinary and those who are sub-part be discarded.
I would then ask you to go over the Hunger Games and ask yourself it the only issue with the world is that people were forced to fight to the death.
And in this view of choice being sovereign over all, you also fail to account for things like the story of Jesus and the said foolish builder:
Luke 12:13-21
[13] Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."
[14] Jesus replied, "Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?" [15] Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
[16] And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. [17] He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.'
[18] "Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. [19] And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." '
[20] "But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'
[21] "This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."
