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Those rights are very flimsy actually. The government can seize your house, your car, and your money anytime. Hardly a monopoly when a third party can break it
by ekianjo 5mo ago
Those rights are very flimsy actually. The government can seize your house, your car, and your money anytime. Hardly a monopoly when a third party can break it at will.
- AlecSchueler 5mo agoThat the state which grants you your right can take them away doesn't make them flimsy. And it's certainly more than "hardly" a monopoly. If the government gives a certain company right to operate on train track infrastructure but denies the same to every other company, then does that first company hardly have a monopoly?
- ekianjo 5mo agoLarge companies that have money lobby governments to ensure they do not threaten their monopolies. Individuals can't do that.
- simonh 5mo agoSure. That’s how rights work. It’s why we need to keep on fighting for them when necessary.
- BobaFloutist 5mo agoBy that standard, nobody has any right to anything. I think it's pretty widely understood that rights range from aspirational descriptions of a just world to widely accepted legal consensus.