Many modern political disputes come down to a collision of different world views. If one believes humans to be evolutionary accidents, the highest animal to have evolved so far, there is no basis moral absolutes, for saying, "This is right," or, "This is wrong," beyond a gun or a ballot box. Humans have no claim to be special, other than being the most advanced animal so far. Nor any basis for rights beyond a piece of paper that can be amended at will or tyrannically ignored. On the contrary, Evolution is a “might makes right” worldview. The Evolutionary imperative is survival of the fittest, and the fit demonstrate their fitness by doing whatever it takes to survive and reproduce (kill, steal, rape … or obey such “laws”, if that is what it takes to survive and reproduce).
If one believes, however, that humans and the universe are the creation of a Designer Who revealed some of His design principles so far as humans are concerned, a basis for right and wrong, for rights, is there. And Some One to whom one is ultimately answerable.
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