Re:An Orangutan Has Some Human Rights, Argentine Court Rules
by Retra on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @01:58AM
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> If you cannot pick up and fire a gun, you have no rights.
Well, I suppose if I break my wrists, I don't have a right to live anymore.
>This implies that the only requirement for having rights is the ability to respect the same rights for others
This is obviously not true at all. If I tell you I have a right to own property, surely an ant doesn't have the same right. So what do you mean by "others?" Other things that I would choose to call equal humans? Who gets to say who that is?
This is fundamentally why I hate the concept: people like to pretend it means something if only everybody ignores all the obvious inconsistencies in the discussion.
You're saying fundamentally incompetent things, and the vagueness of your terminology lets you feel secure in the fact that nobody has the ability to correct you.
Well, I suppose if I break my wrists, I don't have a right to live anymore.
>This implies that the only requirement for having rights is the ability to respect the same rights for others
This is obviously not true at all. If I tell you I have a right to own property, surely an ant doesn't have the same right. So what do you mean by "others?" Other things that I would choose to call equal humans? Who gets to say who that is?
This is fundamentally why I hate the concept: people like to pretend it means something if only everybody ignores all the obvious inconsistencies in the discussion.
You're saying fundamentally incompetent things, and the vagueness of your terminology lets you feel secure in the fact that nobody has the ability to correct you.