The one who may not have gotten his seat at all if it wasn’t for progress, blasts progress.

Clarence “Steven Candie” Thomas, raper of Anita Hill…

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    8 天前

    Ok, look, I’m really not interested in getting into these weeds. My point was just that human rights, whether one believes they are divinely given or inherent to some part of our being, are, for all practical purposes, useless without some means of enforcement. Do you dispute that?

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      8 天前

      Nope, not really. From my perspective, whether they came from a deity or from this place of “they just exist”, humans made them up. Human rights can be more accurately defined as: A bunch of apes have the ability to perceive fairness and are intelligent enough to use language collectively decided that fairness should be the rule. The collective will punish those who break the rules.