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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by Mediterraneo10 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:01PM (#16759041)
> The concept of natural rights merely means that by our nature we have rights.

The Greeks may have had a concept of natural rights separate from their being endowed by a Creator, but that is not the same concept of natural rights that John Locke proposed and which inspired the American Founding Fathers, leading to posts from Americans like the one we see above. Advocacy for that school repeatedly cites the existence of a Creator.

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by freedomben on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:12PM (#16759731)
John Locke and many American Founding Fathers definitely do cite the existence of a Creator, but that isn't a fundamental requirement of the argument. Part of the derivations of natural rights (at least in Locke) comes from observing animals in nature, and applying these "natural" rules to humanity.
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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by ekianjo on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:16PM (#16759778)
The french rights pronounced by the French Revolution had nothing to do with the idea of a Creator and were very similar in concept with many of the Founding Fathers'. So this does not seem like a reasonable argument to make.
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