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Because the right to free speech is working out so well for American politics these days. Not to mention that we're jailing people for protesting the government
by LordDragonfang 6y ago
Because the right to free speech is working out so well for American politics these days. Not to mention that we're jailing people for protesting the government while letting nazism be on the rise.
And while I'm not exactly sure which "right defend yourself + your property" you're referring to, I'd wager you're talking about the right to extrajudicially murder people who you feel threatened by, or the right to own tools intended to assist in that murder, neither of which are "human rights" if you're honest about what you're discussing. Even in the US, the right to bear arms is a constitutional one, not a human one.
- kyboren 6y ago> Because the right to free speech is working out so well for American politics these days. I am unconvinced that the state of US politics is a consequence of a more permissive environment for speech. > I'd wager you're talking about the right to extrajudicially murder people who you feel threatened by That's one hell of a biased way to describe the right to defend oneself. The right to self defense, and to use basic tools in aid of that defense, is indeed an inherent human right and not one that that springs from the text of some document.