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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 6h \ parent \ on: Is "the right to self defense" a human right? security
Gotcha. The reason I asked is because you have the polarity reversed to what I've typically heard. FWIW we are on the same page but you are calling it positive instead of negative.
Why do you say that? What outside force is required to secure the right? Do you consider speech a positive right as well?
My understanding is that Windows is the primary OS in the EU government. This would be a good move for them so... we'll see if they end up adopting it.
10 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford OP 12h \ parent \ on: Is "the right to self defense" a human right? security
I'm beginning to think for the last few years in the US some areas have been under anarcho-tyranny. Refusing to defend people while prosecuting those people that seek to defend themselves against violence. Its terrible and its happening in many countries.
I read natural right as a negative right. As in... a right we can't be granted but can be denied. Or put another way, a right that is not dependent on the actions of others.
People will say things like "health care is a human right". Well, if it is that's a positive right. Or one that requires the actions of others to provide. Or the fact that it has to be provided and doesn't exist naturally as you say.
The "natural right" to speech for example doesn't depend on anyone to provide it. It just is.
I use human right as kind of a linguistic tool. Because the positive rights people use it to make up all sorts of things they think should be. Yet, I have found many have no issue removing the basic natural right of self defense.
This comes up with so called gun control debates. I see these things as violations of the natural right of self defense. And, what is interesting is that this violation affects those that are the weakest among us most heavily. Those that are smaller, weaker, and possibly lacking full mobility. The response is to say the police state will protect them... which is both naive and inconsistent since these people often tell me how prejudice the police are. We should defund them. Yet also we should depend on them?
It is much clearer to discuss the right to defend one's self vs. getting in the weeds about the Constitution or the latest gun crime.
40 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford OP 13h \ parent \ on: Is "the right to self defense" a human right? security
Yeah... I know what you mean. Part of why I'm asking.
Yeah, my guess is we are in a recession now and have been for a while. Gonna get worse and start ripping in 2026. Just a feeling. I'm not an economist. But actually, most economists can't predict the sun rise so...
Great review sir
These neuroses are visible in the inability of Western elites to define manhood and womanhood, the inability of Western elites to speak rationally about immigration policy, and the inability of Western elites to conceive of their responsibility as being first to their own citizens, and only secondarily to the rest of the world.
Dang. Well said.
Reno, who is Roman Catholic, admits that there is danger in the Return of the Strong Gods. The passions and loyalties which excited the Nazis are not preferable to the metaphysical weakness of the post war consensus. Reno's goal is therefore not to advocate for a Return of the Strong Gods, but rather to point out that their return is inevitable, because a society built on weak metaphysical foundations will eventually crumble.
This is my view as well. For those worried about Trump the answer is to return to God. A return to classical or orthodox Christianity. There needs to be moral grounding or you get Trump or worse. The answer isn't fighting Trump or men like him. Its building a culture and society where people don't want a strong man because they believe in a strong God and a loving God.
Admittedly I'm a Christian and one that is currently and for a while looking at church history and positions of alignment over time. I think we are witnessing what happens when the Church Jesus Christ built shirks its place and instead puts its trust in the state, political systems, economics, science and any number of other things. Those aren't all bad (except the state, but you could just call that governance and its not bad) but they are all flawed and need a foundation to build upon. A base morality.
I need to pick up this book I think.