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Comment by oregano

6 hours ago

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Their point is doing a thing for a long time doesn't enshrine it as a right.

The comment before could have said "should be a human right".

imo it's very frustrating having people say "thing I want is a right". What gives them that right? Are all laws not violation of rights if you extend that

  • All rights now encoded in law were originally moral claims.

    • And before they were rights encoded in law were they rights?

      I feel it makes your claim weaker to go from "should have" to "is a right" if there's any doubt in it.

      There's strong "we have a right to ancillary thing" arguments you can make that rely on a right, but those rely on that right being a given, not the premise

  • They are completely ignoring the context of this whole thread, which exists because the highest court in the land (Kenyan land, that is) has affirmed that right.

    Ggp's is as absurd as a North Korean commenting on a SCOTUS ruling on the right to a fair trial by saying "This is a new human right I didn't even know I had."