Re:Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded elec...
by chrisseaton on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:06PM
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This whole thread started with you giving an example of how people don't actually have these rights.
So even you know they aren't actually universal or inalienable.
232 years of pretending people have rights that they demonstrably do not have.
Re:Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded elec...
by sheepdestroyer on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:48PM
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You still continue to say that people having their rights violated means they don't exist. That's a demonstrably false and illogical statement.
It's because people inherently have rights that they fight for them, and others take their side. Hence events like the French Revolution, the Abolition of slavery, or the Civil Rights Movement.
Re:Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded elec...
by chrisseaton on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:39PM
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> You still continue to say that people having their rights violated means they don't exist.
Yes. What is the meaning of a right that nobody enforces?
It's just an aspiration, a wish, something you'd like to have or other people would like you to have. If nobody's enforcing it, it's not really a right. By definition.
> Hence events like the French Revolution, the Abolition of slavery, or the Civil Rights Movement.
These were fights to create rights. They didn't have them before.
The vocation of tyrants is to have their head cut at some point, more or less figuratively.