Talk:Inalienable rights

I hesitate to change this without discussion, but I would change the example of inalienable right given in this article. Locke, in his Two Treatises on Government, holds that life is not an inalienable right, because God, as the creator of our life, never gave the right to our life to us (that is our right to life is held not by us but by God—who could give it to us, if he so chose, but who has seen fit not to). It’s a small point, but a very important one in Locke’s philosophy (it is, for example, why suicide is unethical—one is destroying what belongs to God and not to oneself). Better (at least from the libertarian position) examples of inalienable rights are liberty and the pursuit of property, as try as one might one cannot give up those rights (though one personally holds them).--Reginod 23:20, 10 March 2007 (EST)

Seeing no objection, I am making the change. --Reginod 10:16, 23 March 2007 (EDT)