A marginalized group does not receive human rights, they are stripped of them. The removal of your birthrights should be violently opposed as soon as possible.

  • queermunist she/her
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    1 year ago

    So when I say that “natural rights” aren’t real, I’m saying that they don’t really come from nature. They come from us, because nature was the first threat to our rights.

    Yes, you’re right, the rights we call “natural” exist in some form, because rights exist. I am not disputing the concept of rights or whether they exist at all. A right is just a fundamental building block of society; it is a First Principle that can be used to derive essential freedoms and justice within society.

    My overall point is “natural rights” don’t exist because there’s not a good way to distinguish them from other rights. It’s just ideology. All rights are unnatural because all rights are human social technologies. Rights don’t come from god or nature or the inherent goodness of the human spirit, they come from human struggles.