cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47362341
Henry Cuellar, Donald Davis, Cleo Fields, Laura Gillen, Vicente Gonzalez, Marcy Kaptur, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, and Eugene Vindman
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47362341
Henry Cuellar, Donald Davis, Cleo Fields, Laura Gillen, Vicente Gonzalez, Marcy Kaptur, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, and Eugene Vindman
The fundamental problem with a theory of “rights” is that it assumes a government will self-police.
Ultimately, any social cohort without access to some amount of wealth, legal standing, and support from their peers has no rights in a practical sense.
Children are vulnerable on all three fronts.
Government doesn’t grant rights.
It only acknowledges them or chooses not to.
Rights are things that it is right for a person to have and is not right for a person to be denied.
Governments grant privileges. Governments do not grant rights.
Show me a legal stricture that isn’t written, enforced, or adjudicated by a government body.
That’s an oroborus of a definition.
It doesn’t clarify how rights are created, enforced, or adjudicated.
Governments are people, my friend.
And rights are legal guidelines administered by people.