The idea that every human being is ‘naturally’ endowed with inalienable rights is an absurd notion in my thinking. Who or what endows people with such rights? From what reality do people derive such rights? Surely they do not derive them from an ideal situation in which nobody steals from anyone else. They only derive them from a non-ideal situation, from the fact that people steal from other people, to use your term.
How I see it:
There is no such thing as 'natural right'.
There is the nature of a given situation.
In which a person who eyes me and my ability to defend or run away or to seek help, is being estimated. If the estimation turns out to be against me, I will be robbed or raped or killed if someone wishes to do so.
So, we need rules or commandments. Fact is, that they were, are and will being violated.
what we then do with the psychopaths who have killed, stolen and tortured generations of the common man is an ethical question.
It is also a practical and pragmatic question.
Would you want a psychopath to die, if evidence is given that he killed out of lust or other low motives? Would you be able to be that person yourself who brings death to such a killer? If your answer is "no", what would that mean for you and others who say "I couldn't do that"? Who then shall be put into place to do justice in the names of those who won't?
germans will yet have to face being in a situation of having to forgive a LOT. i have prepared myself accordingly and am ready.
To what do you refer? Not sure, what you mean.
Anyways, expression is limited and I do not want to make the comment too long.
Greetings to Italy! Where exactly are you? I have fond memories of Italy :) You plan to visit Martijn Doolaard? Just joking.