I understand the origin. It's just silly to deny the role
Posted on: September 10, 2021 at 11:19:13 CT
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of government in the provision of rights.
I get the whole natural rights thing but if you are punished or beaten or arrested or killed for exercising those rights, do you really possess those rights?
What does the right to freedom of speech mean? That you can speak but then the government beats the shlt out of you, locks you in prison and denies you the right to be heard? You can speak but only to yourself in solitary confinement?
If you have the right to own property and the government nationalizes it and throws you off of it like in south africa, do you have the right to property?
What good is a right if it cannot be freely exercised?
And who determines whether or not it can be freely exercised?