Quote:It's also notable that all Western governments reserve the right to revoke all of the canonical "rights" of the United States Declaration of Independence: even those states that lack capital punishment legally condone killing in self defense and in war; they abrige the liberty of criminal prisoners, and they take property by taxation, fine, and civil judgment. If an "inalienable" right is one that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws, the United States government does not consider life, liberty, or property to be inalienable. It is unclear whether an absolutist interpretation suggested by the Wiki page is at all socially tenable.Read my point in the previous point about distinguishing restrictions from complete loss of rights - Restrictions of rights are necessary in any society, we all voluntarily restrict our rights to avoid hurting the rights of others. The fact I don't go into a government's property doesn't mean that I have lost the right to free circulation, it just means I have to limit it to avoid colliding with other people's rights.
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