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> That means that it is totally okay for the police to shoot everyone they don't like. there's what people can do, and the consequences of it. rights are just
by pasquinelli 5y ago
> That means that it is totally okay for the police to shoot everyone they don't like.
there's what people can do, and the consequences of it. rights are just a statement about consequences, but just a statement, which is why cops don't have the right to kill without consequences, but in practice they kill without consequences.
- ghoward 5y agoIf rights are a human construct, then cops, who are at the top of the power pyramid, can just give themselves the "right" to shoot whoever they want. Yet the fact that we still say it's wrong shows that no, rights are not a human construct.
- pasquinelli 5y agosure, but it doesn't matter what we say does it?