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Originally Posted by MarissaW
Rights can be suspended, changed and removed. To call a right "fundamental" is to say that it is there and cannot be taken away. That implies something larger than governments gifted us with these 'fundamental' rights. As an atheist, I don't believe we were magically bequeathed with rights by some great power. Aside from a few biological tendencies, there's nothing much I consider "inherent."
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What about considering such rights as being fundamental to our established government? Not fundamental in the sense of something inherent to all humans, but fundamental in the sense that they are the basis on which the government of the United States is founded? The rights that should be bequeathed not by a great power, but by virtue of the fact that we are U.S. citizens?