European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication

Re:European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private... by vixen99 on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:24AM (#27758348)

I have no rights unless others recognize and at least tacitly agree that they have obligations with respect to those rights.

As the only person left in the universe (after some cataclysm), you'd be left with obligations but no rights. The obligations would include those that arise from within yourself to prevail and try to survive as best you can. Rights? Well, who would be granting those? The innate bit refers to obligations but not rights.

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Re:European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private... by readflaggedcomm on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @04:01AM (#27758568)

Natural rights exist even when denied and infringed. Perhaps they are discovered as a consequence of human behavior, rather than molded by a grantor in acts of beneficence or compromise.

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Re:European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private... by TedDoesntTalk on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:08PM (#27764694)

Can you name a “natural right”?

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Re:European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private... by TedDoesntTalk on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:08PM (#27764699)

This is beautiful and spot on.

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Re:European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private... by WalterBright on Thursday July 08, 2021 @02:06PM (#27775705)

If rights are merely a fabrication of government, then it should be possible to create a communist society that works as well as a free society.

But they don't. Not even close. Something is fundamentally wrong with communist societies.

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