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Foreigners don't want equal rights. Just equal protections from the government.
by venomsnake 13y ago
Foreigners don't want equal rights. Just equal protections from the government.
- chii 13y agoprotection (from harm) is a right granted by the government.
- SEMW 13y agoYes, but that you can identify one right that governments can/should afford non-citizens and citizens alike doesn't mean that's true of all rights. Venomsnake was trying to identify the kind of right that it should be true for. As a British citizen I have a right to not be tortured by the government (under A.3 HRA1998), and a right to NHS healthcare. The former (a negative right) is one the government should afford to the whole world. The latter (a positive right) is not.
- DannyBee 13y agoMaybe they should, but they usually don't.
- Qantourisc 13y agoYou mean harm inflicted by the government, so it's the Mafia: join our club, or we extort you ... sound delightful.