Is National Review's Jonah Goldberg putting out feelers for the theme of his next book ?
“Do Vampires have rights ?” , he asks in NRO.:” it seems to me that the founding fathers would unequivocally say that vampires do not have rights because rights come from God (or our creator). Vampires are undead and exist solely thanks to satanic or other demonic forces. They shy from God and God's love and therefore do not deserve the protections all of God's creatures are entitled to. ... I think I'm safe assuming that most atheists ground their understanding of rights and citizenship as stemming from sentience, consciousness, etc.
Well, vampires have all of those things in their favor. Presumably, an atheist would reject the premise of the question. They would argue that vampires either do not exist... or that vampirism is a biological state, a disease of some kind.... In which case, I assume they would argue that vampires do have rights because having a disease does not amount to a surrender of your humanity or rights.
Interestingly, if you could prove that vampires are real and that their vampiric status derives from supernatural forces, you would have done yeoman work in proving the existence of God. After all, if there are demons, there are probably devils and if there are devils, it seems awfully silly to reject the idea that there might be angels and, ultimately God. If I were more up to speed on my Chesterton, I'm sure there's an appropriate quote here...”.
The Bosnian Islamovampists are not going to like this at all.
However vampirism is a contagious disease (one which quite uniquily sufferers are driven to spread) therefore they should be forcibly quarentined for the rest of their lives (however long that is) under the laws used against Typhoid Mary.
However if you could prove that vampiric power comes from a supernatural force it would automaticaly become a natural but not understood force (like gravity). Due to an unfortunate dearth of experimental evidence supernatural studies have not yet progressed to the level Newton achieved but a few unliving specimens could change that.
Posted by: neil craig | June 10, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Interesting and a good point there Neil Craig. This blog forgot the point that initially "vampirism" is contagious and the "bite" alone is powerful enough to pass the immortal "rights" passed on by the gods, sweet.
Posted by: Hunter | December 06, 2009 at 11:09 PM
It is always politics way of bringing culture of different sorts together!
Posted by: karmaloop coupon | February 20, 2010 at 11:35 PM
I see, so it is similar to political infection with the use of a bite?
Posted by: Buddha Decor | February 20, 2010 at 11:37 PM