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Re: Editorial: ''De Blasio's Subway Follies'' |
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Posted by Nilet on Mon Jul 24 22:53:04 2017, in response to Re: Editorial: ''De Blasio's Subway Follies'', posted by New Flyer #857 on Mon Jul 24 21:49:37 2017. From whence do they come then?From basic morality. From the fact that every single person would be hurt by their absence, gain from their presence, and thus has a strong incentive to demand their universal acknowledgement. If you genuinely don't understand the concept, then would you agree that slavery was morally just until the 13th Amendment was ratified? That the Nazis committed no wrong because their actions were compliant with German law in effect at the time? Is it by your own authority that you label a right "fundamental?" See, the problem here is that you're an authoritarian— you believe that the only legitimate form of government is a dictatorship or oligarchy in which all power is held by an Authority consisting of at most a small handful of individuals. As such, the idea of rights that transcend governments is almost incomprehensible to you; after all, in your mindset a right of the people can only exist to the extent that a king has decreed it, so how could a right exist without a king to give it? No, you believe that rights exist only at the discretion of Authorities, so if I assert a right that I concede wasn't issued by your authority, the only possible explanation is that I view myself an Authority with the right to issue or rescind rights as I so choose. So you find yourself asking: "If this right doesn't come from the decree of my king, then which king decreed it? Do you believe yourself a king?" |
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