News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison by javert on Friday May 29, 2015 @05:46PM (#9627686)
Speaking as someone who's on your side in this debate...

Rights are what you get if a bunch of rational, self-interested people get together and say, "What ought we be allowed to do without interference?"

There is a single, correct, rational answer to that: you ought to be allowed to do anything that doesn't initiate force against someone else. All rights are a function of that single fundamental observation.

Every rational, fully self-interested person (who has studied the topic a lot) will agree on this.

So that's where rights come from... they are a human construct, but there's also a single, objectively correct answer.

So they don't come from "Laws of Nature" or the Founding Fathers.

Re:Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison by titaniumdecoy on Friday May 29, 2015 @07:06PM (#9628072)
> So that's where rights come from... they are a human construct, but there's also a single, objectively correct answer.

Ironically (since you are obviously a rational, self interested person), this statement is objectively false.

Re:Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison by javert on Saturday May 30, 2015 @09:49PM (#9632683)
I would appreciate an explanation for why you say that.
Re:Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison by tedunangst on Friday May 29, 2015 @06:14PM (#9627820)
Well, no shit. All the rational people agree with you, and everyone who disagrees is irrational. Didn't see that coming.