Let clear there is no evidence you recognize. Not the same. No the new government was established to protect them. You don't see the difference do you? By your reasoning when slavery was legal in America blacks didn't have a God given or inherent or inalienable, as the UN document called it, right to live freely. Complete idiocy.Those two things are completely false. There is no evidence at all for a Creator of any kind, let alone one that grants rights. On the other hand, the evidence that it is governments that grants rights is overwhelming. After all, who ultimately granted the rights mentioned in the D o I? It was the new government of the US, covering their backs by mentioning the Creator, while ensuring that the rights were mentioned only applied to those who were white, male, rich and supported the new regime.(which is still largely the case.)
There is a right to pursue happiness not to be happy. Big difference. I would actually love it if people who are unhappy here moved somewhere else. Oh God please! BTW don't start unraveling now you have been doing a good d job avoiding the emotional but i am seeing a chink in the armour. Notice I added the "u" to be more inclusive.As for the role of government, absolute tosh. In the first place there is no attempt whatever to protect the lives of US citizens. Otherwise you would have government funded healthcare and a sane firearms policy, a much lower child mortality and a tenth the fatal shootings. Liberty? You lock up more of your citizens than anywhere else in the western world. The pursuit of happiness? No worker rights, paid holidays, maternity or paternity leave, to say nothing of the opposition to those who seek happiness by changing gender or marrying someone of the same sex. There are ways to measure the happiness of a country. If your system is so great, why are your citizens so unhappy compared to the rest of the western world?
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