Quote (Santara @ Apr 24 2020 10:03am)
All kinds of rights can be violated. Legal rights can be revoked. Natural rights cannot.
Nothing in the Bill of Rights is covered by this...these are legal rights. Property is a legal right.
I feel like self defense is the only natural right. But even that is revoked in the ways we execute and imprison people, globally and historially speaking....it is contingent on power.
The Greeks were right about rights being a matter to be discussed among equals. Melian Dialogue. "The strong have the power to do what they're going to do and the weak must accept."
I feel like this holds true.
I also don't necessarily believe in Rousseau's noble savage and think Hobbes was more accurate about a state of nature.
This post was edited by Skinned on Apr 24 2020 08:31am