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Hehe, I remember that bold claim accmpanying my first Canadian visa. "Your permission to enter Canada is privilege and not a right, and can be revoked at any mo
by ommunist 10y ago
Hehe, I remember that bold claim accmpanying my first Canadian visa. "Your permission to enter Canada is privilege and not a right, and can be revoked at any moment". I doubt this attitude changed. New Zealand is way less snobbish.
- serge2k 10y agoHow is that snobbish? How is it bold? It's a fact. You have no right to be in Canada. I have no right to be in the US. That's why I try to behave myself.
- ommunist 10y agoLook at this planet from space. Do you see any state borders? I do not.
- derefr 10y ago"Natural rights" are mostly a thing insofar as a mob of people that sees person A taking away what they consider a "natural right" of person B, will attack person A. Thus, if the populist sentiment of the people of some land-mass is that you don't have a right to be there with them, then you don't, no matter what abstract arguments you might give to the contrary. Your rights only extend as far as others' willingness to enforce them for you.