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RE: Firearms in the Hands of a Philosopher
What I find silly is anyone who has faith in groups of people using force and violence over support of the individual.
What I find silly is anyone who has faith in groups of people using force and violence over support of the individual.
My point was only that "natural rights" are a western philosophical concept, they don't exist outside of that context. We are very lucky that the fellows who founded our country were well educated in the philosophy of their day and culture. The vast majority of people on earth are not so lucky, for them instead free speech and the right to bear arms being obvious "natural rights" they are foreign concepts. If they were somehow magical and inherent then you would think they would be universal but sadly that is not so. In many ways the liberties we enjoy in America are an accident of history and a rare one instead of a natural human condition.
The philosophy you are talking about that those founders believed in was the philosophy of John Locke, almost to a person. Locke was the one who talked about natural rights. Might I suggest his 2 treatices on Government. Here is my article on Locke- https://steemit.com/freedom/@adamkokesh/kindling-the-fires-of-freedom-john-locke-forgotten-freedom-fighters
I'm very familiar with him.
Riiiiiight.
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