Natural Rights and Lost
Sep 2nd, 2006 by Brian A. Thomas
From the Wikipedia article on Natural Rights:
Some thinkers like John Locke emphasized “property” as primary. Indeed, Locke’s influential defense of the right of revolution is represented in the Declaration of Independence, where Thomas Jefferson cited “life, liberty, and private property” in his initial drafts. For political reasons, the committee approving the Declaration later substituted “pursuit of happiness” for property. The Declaration of Independence also based natural or “unalienable rights” on human nature, arguing that it was “self-evident” that human beings by their very nature seek life, liberty, and happiness. This assumed, like Hobbes, Locke and Jean–Jacques Rousseau - also a major social contract thinker - the right of human beings to follow their nature as a natural right antedating and not bestowed by government.
Locke and Rousseau, two of the names of Lost characters who were named after the above mentioned Philosophers. Perhaps Lost is an exploration of natural rights? I am just too tired right now to think clearly and elaberate further, but something is clicking in the back of my mind, something along the lines of natural rights vs civil rights. Too many people think rights come from the government, rather then recognize that function of government is more to hinder rights then give them. Perhaps after some sleep it will make more sense and I can draw a larger picture of what is going on in the back of my head.
