A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'

Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by christophilus on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:14AM (#17565901)

I just started reading "Society and Sanity"[0]. It's an interesting read so far, and opens with a prediction that if society forgets what a human is, that society will tend towards this sort of behavior-- arbitrary treatment of fellow humans, with the only argument against such treatment being, "I don't like it, and I wish you'd be kinder to people." And the counter argument being, "I like it, and I don't want to be kinder to people." If we're to solve this problem, we have to get back to the essential foundational idea that human beings have intrinsic rights which exist and are not simply concessions of the state.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Society-Sanity-Understanding-Live-Tog...

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by jtbayly on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:18AM (#17565944)

Yes. All sorts of things like this that ignore human intrinsic value and rights.

Abortion is a prime example.

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by ionised on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:59AM (#17566320)

How?

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by AnimalMuppet on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:52PM (#17571050)

I presume the point was that, as a fetus is genetically human, treating it as something to be killed at our convenience is an example of the problem ("arbitrary treatment of fellow humans", rather than recognizing that "human beings have intrinsic rights which exist and are not simply concessions of the state").

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