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Re:Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order t... by mpweiher on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:47AM (#23177915)
> other countries you speak about have already lost their rights

Freedom House has the US at 86, most of Western Europe in the high 90s.

https://freedomhouse.org/explore-the-map?type=fiw&year=2020

While I am not going to say the US is an undemocratic hellhole, after all a score of 86 is respectable, saying that countries that score significantly higher "lost their rights" is unlikely to be correct.

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Re:Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order t... by bluGill on Thursday May 14, 2020 @10:56AM (#23180295)
All such measures are subjective. What rights the reviewers see as important will change ratings. There is no fair way to compare countries that everyone will agree on. If you really want to compare rate countries we first need a crittera discussion which will take a long time (and most people probably don't actually care enough to complete it)
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Re:Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order t... by noarchy on Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:36PM (#23182646)
How much of their concept of "rights" enters into the "positive vs negative" rights debate? Depending on one's perspective, this could heavily skew things in one direction or the other.
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