Re:Coinbase and the IRS
by JumpCrisscross on Sunday January 15, 2017 @09:02AM
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> No human construct grants a person a right to violate human rights
Human rights are a human construct. Moreover, they only make sense within the context of social contract which only becomes practical when enforced by a government.
They're not a conditional construct. They are by definition universal. When something is a human right, we consider it to be an inalienable right that no party has a right to violate.
And 'social contract' is double speak. It's an attempt to misappropriate the concept of a contract to confer moral legitimacy to majority dictates.
A person acting under the auspices of a state has no right to violate human rights. A state is merely a human construct. No human construct grants a person a right to violate human rights.