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Because UK is not a dictatorship. China is.
by malka 6y ago
Because UK is not a dictatorship. China is.
- f6v 6y agoYeah, lockdown parties are a basic human right.
- jeofken 6y agoAgreed. No man has the right to violently hinder free people from living free. My body is my property and not the property of the state.
- ubercow13 6y agoAny state on the planet will violently hinder their people from doing certain things, that one of the jobs of most police forces. Often it's to protect the rights of other 'free people' in the population.
- jeofken 6y agoLike my body is my property are the bodies of others also property of theirs, and I have no right to violate their property right. It is instead right to proportionally defend rightfully owned property.
- djsumdog 6y agoGathering is a basic human right: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. There is no reason stated. There is no exception for "virus." Human rights laws were not written for fair weather. They were written for crisis and disaster.
- 0xffff2 6y agoQuoting the US constitution in a thread about the UK doesn't make much sense. Is there a similar legal doctrine in the UK?
- jeofken 6y agoOur natural rights are God-given and true since all men are equal children of creation, and thus no man has the right to stand above any other and deny them their right to speech or to gather. I am the property of myself and have the sole right of ownership - not anyone employed by the state. This was worded well by the writers of the American constitution, but the idea is as old as time - it’s the idea of universalist ethics.
- Gibbon1 6y agoBy that logic when the UK should have done nothing as Germany Invaded Poland and France. And then nothing as German troops landed. The real fact is people that argue and resist taking action against Covid because 'mah freedumbs' are seriously undermining democratic governments. Basically making authoritarian governments point for them.
- ketamine__ 6y agoLots of politicians are refusing to get the vaccine. Something about waiting their turn. That seriously undermines democratic governments in a pandemic. I don't understand mocking freedoms. There are many people in nursing homes that want to see their families but can't. They are angry because the caretakers can see their families but they can't. Will you mock them too?
- Gibbon1 6y agoI'm not mocking freedoms are pointing out that if you want to keep them you need to act like you can be trusted with them.