@ZBLBAC5 Those aren't rights, those are privileges.

what's the difference

Rights are god given or inalliable privileges are not, those you have to earn.

This is one thing the Auth Left and EUHRC doesn't get.

so the difference is rights are made up

let me just say, as a german, german goverment is shit right now

but fuck reparations

https://www.rt.com/news/479909-belgium-ghent-stabbing-shot-police/

nothing to see here

ignore the muslims guys, nothing wrong with brown people

```Rights are god given or inalliable privileges are not,```

this obviously only works if you actually believe in God or, worse, 'natural rights' 🙄

I know there are not rights. It is a joke that references Cato the Elder.

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1224097661646594049

life, liberty and property existed before rulers and that is the basis for natural rights

you might give them away though for a false sense of security

what does that even mean

rights are a thing humans invented to be able to live in a society

the only way they are "natural" is that we made them up, but we are part of nature, ergo natural

i would certainly say private property did not really exist in hunter-gatherer societies

without rulers you only have property insofar as you are able to defend it yourself

or if you manage to group together or employ someone to defend it, but that's how you get a state

Just because something is natural doesn’t mean it’s good or bad. What it means is that there is going to be a tendency to go in that direction. And like gravity, if you don’t have something in place to prevent it it will reset back to that.

Though impeding too much on human nature is both cruel and dysfunctional. So you should try to work with the grain a little bit

Not in all cases though

Anyway, claiming that “life, liberty and property” existed before rules is interesting. I’d say it’s probably half and half on that one. Amerindian tribes can be described as Anarcho communist, but other groups have had property without gov

Life of course existed

Liberty? Not really dude...

Your tribe restricted you a lot

Sure TeChIcallY you could fuck off and smoke weed all day but you’d probably die

So between the tribe/clan/family and death you didn’t have a lot of wiggle room. I mean it was just focused on surviving

But just because these things existed doesn’t mean you have a right to these things

Or entitled, sounds fucked up but let’s be honest, you can’t strong arm Mother Nature to let you live longer

human's natural state is that of being born into authority

to one's parents, and from one's parents to the tribe

that authority provides the mechanism by which one may survive and even thrive, it imposes obligations on the individual so as to strengthen the collective organizations that bolster their will

what is liberty? power

what is property? the expression of power over objects

when two men's interests conflict, and neither are willing to let the other have their way, power decides whose interests reign supreme

and through this the will of the individual is expressed through the power embodied by the collective and the authority that entails

the discipline imposed on a soldier by his squad is not an impediment to his liberty