Comment on Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoCops seem to be justified in shooting and killing people that just show a gun in their own house after they break down the wrong door(or the right one). 2A rights don’t really exist either.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Rights always exist. They come from God or Nature. Our fellow men either respect or ignore those rights. But even ignoring a right or disrespecting it doesn’t make the right just vanish.
It is not our fellows who give us rights. Nor can our fellows take them away.
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 week ago
Bullshit. Gods aren’t real and nature gives nothing.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Rights as a concept I described correctly.
I have my interests and my dignity. I prosecute my interests. Where did I get all that from? Interests and dignity, what is that if not another way to describe rights? The fact that I will prosecute and defend those regardless of your opinion, what is that? Rights again.
When we say Nature “gives” we don’t mean it transfers something to us. It’s just a way of saying we have some qualities or properties as beings by way of simply us being what we are. In this case “gives” is not literal.
As for Gods not being real, I won’t bother arguing for God being real in the interests of time. I purposely included Nature as an alternative to God.
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 6 days ago
If you live in a dictatorship, those rights don’t exist. The rights are earned or agreed upon by a collective. They don’t pre-exist. In an universe without sentient beings, the notion of “rights” is nonsense.