RE: What Human Rights?
July 16, 2015 at 10:44 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2015 at 11:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Meh, it's still a right, but rights that we can't exercise or enforce have little -utility-. That's why we defend them in the first place, eh? So that we can use them. We really do have to account for shit like the KKK stringing people up in trees....elsewise we're claiming that there is no right to life or liberty : because the KKK exists and occasionally strings someone up in a tree. We can't always use our rights, we don't always enjoy their benefits, that's just a fact. If we have to be able to use it at any given time, if we have to be able to enjoy it at any given time, regardless of any circumstance, there are -no- rights, of any kind, anywhere. Never have been. Never will be.
The requirements for the existence of a right must not be manufactured so as to be impossible to attain....eh? Otherwise we shouldn't be surprised when we find that we have none, and that the entire subject is an empty set.
@Cath
The requirements for the existence of a right must not be manufactured so as to be impossible to attain....eh? Otherwise we shouldn't be surprised when we find that we have none, and that the entire subject is an empty set.
@Cath
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