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I think "irrelevant" goes too far, but I concede that the border is fuzzier than I previously thought.
by evanpw 11y ago
I think "irrelevant" goes too far, but I concede that the border is fuzzier than I previously thought.
- chongli 11y agoEven the most simple, basic, negative right to not be killed flies out the window if you just kill somebody and then ask the question "now what?" Well, without positive rights, the answer is "not much". These terms have plenty of meaning in the abstract but no direct real world applicability. Their main use seems to be rhetorical: specifically by ideologues who support the status quo while denying a status quo bias.