(July 2, 2014 at 2:38 pm)Losty Wrote: A funny thing about rights. It's not supposed to matter what anyone thinks about them. They are rights they should be inalienable. If you can take them away because most people think you should, then they wouldn't be rights.
What if your country did a vote on whether or not you could get married. What if there was 100% voter turn out and every single person except you voted that you should not be allowed to marry. Then you should still be allowed to marry because that is your right. It doesn't matter how other people feel about it.
Of course not rights are not given by the state, they are recognized, this is an idea that has been around since the french revolution, people concluded they had certain fundamental rights since birth, the state could or could not recognize them, but they exist even when repeatedly violated or taken away.
A vote on marriage would be against my constitution, fundamental rights cannot be objects of referendums, this is way our voting on the abortion issue should never have happened, and our constitutional court decided against allowing gay adoption/co-adoption to be voted by our people. They still tried to make the law on the parliament, but even center leftists voted against. It didn't pass.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
