Well dang. If you didn't think Scott Adams was a piece of shit before, just look at him now!

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We have so many threads on what rights are, I am asking honestly if it’s needed here?

What rights should people have, and why? (and what the hey, how to balance them)

I’ve been reading a bunch of gun threads, and the gun advocates are very enamored of the right to carry a gun, and I keep thinking… Why? You have no right to fly a drone (there are a ton of legal restrictions, and they are likely to get tougher). You don’t even have a right to drive a car. I also recently read The Dawn of Everything which discusses three basic rights that most people have had throughout time, that we mostly don’t have. The freedom to leave (and be accepted somewhere else) The…

What are Rights for? Where do they come from? Including 2nd Amendment

Inspired by a conversation from a pit thread. I don’t think that our disagreement is about gun rights at all. I think our disagreement is about something much more fundamental, something I hope to get at in this thread, by asking: what are rights for? In another thread, you said this: I don’t completely disagree with your statement here, but I think it is adjacent to the root disagreement. Rights (like rites, money, nation-states, religions, governments, families, ideologies, etc) are huma…

Being two of the more recent ones, and not including the one linked upthread.