RE: I understand the origin. It's just silly to deny the role
Posted on: September 10, 2021 at 11:26:13 CT
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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?
Yes, you still possess those inalienable rights. It helps to understand why the punishment, beating, arrest, and execution are immoral and evil acts. They are immoral and evil because they infringe on 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?
This is a good example as to why rights only come from nature, and not governments. The First Amendment doesn't ultimately do anything to stop the federal govt from infringing on individual's rights to speech. The First Amendment is an attempt to codify natural rights, but the govt doesn't care and will infringe on them.
That doesn't change the nature of where those rights come from. It demonstrates that govt is a terrible safekeeper of rights. (of course, govt exists by theft and infringement of rights in the first place, so what should you really expect?).
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?
YES! And that's how you know the govt infringed on your rights. That was YOUR property, not the governments.
What good is a right if it cannot be freely exercised?
This is the wrong questions. Rights aren't good or bad or anything of the sort. They just are.
You have a superior right to your life, liberty, and property. This exists regardless of the varying levels of govt or non-govt interference with them.
And who determines whether or not it can be freely exercised?
No one person. Rights come from nature.