(July 18, 2015 at 1:26 pm)Dystopia Wrote: Inalienability just means you can't lose or give the right away - It doesn't mean that violating that right makes it non-existent - That's why we call it a "violation" and it's not acceptable as normal behavior - It doesn't literally mean that in reality you can't see your rights being violated, but that it is an abstractly desirable goal to maintain those rights as fundamental mechanisms for any human to react against oppressive forces.
In that case, freedom is not inalienable. Anyone who has enlisted in the military and lived through basic training understands that when you sign up, you give your right to liberty away, at least temporarily.
And in wartime conscription, such liberty is taken away from you.
The right to liberty does not exist in nature. It is granted by the social contract of societies which hold liberty as a value.
