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Rights can, in theory, be had by everyone. Privileges are inherently for a select few. Wouldn't the world be wonderful if all 7 billion people had free speech?
by jeffdavis 7y ago
Rights can, in theory, be had by everyone. Privileges are inherently for a select few.
Wouldn't the world be wonderful if all 7 billion people had free speech?
- trhway 7y ago>Rights can, in theory, be had by everyone. Privileges are inherently for a select few. when it is had by everyone then it is a right. Until that it is a privilege. For example voting in US was in the past a privilege of white male property owners, and today it is pretty much a right (if one discounts voter suppression state laws, etc). Another example - free speech can, in theory, be had by everyone in Russia or China, yet it is really far from everybody having it there. Thus it isn't a right there despite that "can, in theory".