Neither of you have provided answers to the questions I asked. Instead you want to hijack the principles of freedom and try to graft them into a philosophical system that would never bear the fruit of liberty. That is a recipe for cognitive dissonance because humans always ask why?
Why do we have rights? Why are they inalienable? Where do they come from?
Because we are humans. Because it's better than the alternative. From our sentience.
More importantly and in short, I have rights because I'm willing to defend them. The philosophical stuff is nice, and I like it. But at the end of the day, folks are (thus far) not willing to pay the price to take them from me.
That is the true answer at the end of the day. Because it works, we like it, and we're willing to kill to keep it.
It is also instructive to see how we bastions of liberty here at APS are brainstorming ways of limiting the civil right to vote.
It must be the religion causing that, right!
And the overwhelming majority explains, in logical reasoned detail, why it is not a good idea.
Nothing wrong with brainstorming anything, even if it is a bad idea. I often brainstorm how to break into a house (or bank), or cripple infrastructure, or illegally enter a network. It does not mean I'm a criminal. It means you have to consider situations from all perspectives if you truly want to understand it.