Replying to Neopatriarch

Freedom #realFreedom cannot be "given". People can either respect a person's Rights, or they don't. Rights must be observed or defended else freedom is sacrificed.

Yet, Rights persist even without liberty.

Example: Australians still have a right to arm themselves even in the absence of the liberty to do so. Australians aren't free.

If someone else defines what your liberties are you are not free.

Free people have Rights.

Rights are permissionless.

Rights are moral. *

Rights must be defended.

* No one has the Right to do that which is immoral.
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Dr.EAD 2y ago

Technically that depends on what you mean by immoral…. I might think it’s immoral for you to watch an R rated movie, but still think you have a “right” to do it, i.e. not be willing to respond coercively to a nonviolent issue

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Neopatriarch 2y ago

Right.

You get it.

Just because someone is doing something immoral, that doesn't grant you a special Right to be immoral against them.

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Neopatriarch 2y ago

More simply:

Two wrongs don't make a right.