Does it tire you...

Seeing all the posts about gummint tekkin away ur rites? Is anyone still familiar with Jeremy Bentham? Hobbes had to come to the absurd conclusion that in a state of nature you had both all rights and no rights. Bentham said that rights anterior to the creation of government were "nonsense upon stilts". As he put it, want is not desert, hunger is not bread (a refutation prior to its genesis of the best theory of what the foundation of human rights could be, that they stem from human needs - once God was taken out of the equation human rights lacked any metaphysical foundations whatsoever). The thoughtlessness of it pains me. Moreover, if you want to put God back into the equation, please show me in the Bible where rights are granted by God. More moreover, show me how this escapes Bentham's point, since God would be acting as supreme legislator. Government gave you your rights, and the only rights you have are civil rights. I know, I know, there are things you could do on one day that you can't do on subsequent days, and you're all scared of the big bad boogeyman, but please God give up the govt is the antithesis of rights talk, it's irritating nonsense. Instead, make a real case for why something should be a civil right in the first place. Or keep whinging and make some stupid, anti-intellectual remark about practice and life-or-death struggles that somehow obviate the need for explanation and sound argument, as though your personal emotional fixations are all that's needed to win people over to your view of the magic of rights.