• carrotfox@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    Really just shows what George Carlin said for a long time, there’s no such thing as “rights”. They’re temporary privileges that can be revoked whenever convenient.

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      21 hours ago

      That’s a dumb take. Rights are intrinsic to all people, they can’t be taken away, even if they are violated. Everybody experiences various levels of human rights violations, but nobody has fewer rights because of the crimes commited against them.

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        13 hours ago

        Who gave you your rights? Unless you think God did it or nature somehow, rights are a man made construct