An absolute right

Today in our philosophy class we started talking about whether or not human beings have an absolute right to anything. As our discussion went on we kept asking questions and defining terms and how those terms were defined would change how we perceived the answer to be. We talked about having an absolute right to life and how that right depended really on what you believe. I really still don't get philosophy at all because right before class ended the professor basically said that there is never really any right answer to anything which I totally disagree with. If we could never know anything than what would be the point of actually living. We were given the gift of life from God. A gift that was great and yet we sit and waste it away. 

This gift of life is like getting food when you are starving. Yet instead of taking that food and eating it to give yourself nourishment to live you set it aside and let it rot. We were given a life to live and yet we set it aside for our own selfish ambitions. 

We live in a world that always wants and asks for more and yet right in front of us is sitting the gift that could give us all that and yet we set it aside to try and find it by ourselves. We want the right to speak freely, the right to bear arms, the right to have money, the right to have anything we want and do anything to get it. We want so much that the original gift is piled so deep under so many other wants that how can we expect to actually be able to have anything else if we don't even have the gift of life to live?