"Without faith it is impossible to live." -Tolstoy

We're not talking religious here. Well, not specifically anyways. Faith is just believing in something that you can't prove with reason. Human Rights is a perfect example. There is no rational way to prove that I should have Freedom of Speech. I just except it on faith. I have faith that when my friend says he'll do something, that he actually will. No proof, no logical reasoning, just faith. I could say that I have faith that God exists. My roommate could say that he has faith that God doesn't. Have we contradicted one another? Can we sit down and have an argument about this? No more than we could argue that green is my favorite color. There is no valid argument that the Bill of Rights is correct, just a lot of good points. In the end, the judgement call is just a leap of faith one way or another.

The strange part about this is that, probobly, most of the leaps of faith are, in fact, objective. God either exists or he doesn't. God's existance is not something that is up to my opinion. But all the arguing and faith in the world is not going to bring me any closer to knowing for certain. There are innumeral good points, excellent points for having certain Human Rights. But Hitler can still say that he has faith that they don't exist and no one can prove him wrong. That's the beauty of faith. It is the only way to answer some of the most important questions out there, and every answer is unprovable and thus, not wrong in our knowledge. You can know that you are right, but until you get perception beyond that of this life, you'll never have proof.

The answer to the purpose of this life cannot be proven until after death. Until we become infinite, we can never give a certain answer to an infinite question.