cubedemon6073 wrote:
Fnord wrote:
A right is an inalienable entitlement -- You have the right to pursue happiness, for example.
A privilege is a revocable entitlement -- Your driver's license can be revoked, denying you the privilege of driving a car, for example.
In the case of medical care, while you do have the inalienable right to life, the privilege of obtaining medical care can be revoked due to religion, lack of money, death sentence, or your mother's reproductive 'choice'. In other words, someone else's determination can prevent you from receiving the treatment you need to stay alive.
And, if inalienable is conditional then how is it truthfully inalienable? It's like saying war is peace and telling me one has the right to leave the USA yet one doesn't have the right to reside somewhere else. Da f*k!
Exactly. The difference between 'rights' and 'privileges' is essentially an arbitrary one -- humans invented these concepts, humans bestowed them, and humans can take them away.
There are no 'rights', there are no 'privileges'; there is only what other people let you do, have, think, speak, and write.
Only this, and nothing more.
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