(September 16, 2025 at 10:43 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: More as violating your rights. Not taking them away. OFC tyrannical governments violate rights. It's pretty much baked into the adjective.
So, for example. Our government intends to violate our civil rights. It routinely tells us as much. I believe them.
I don't agree. To me violation implies acting outside the norm. For your rights to be violated they must be otherwise respected. So tyrannical gov does not violate rights, it simply does not grant them in the first place.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.
