• @[email protected]
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    420 hours ago

    I don’t personally believe in rights as an external phenomenon. I believe they are a human fiction

    • @[email protected]
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      07 hours ago

      So? Humans have the ability intentionally NOT to kill animals for consumption and the ability to make up rights.

      The externality vs internality of rights discourse doesn’t externalise your personhood with rights.

      • @[email protected]
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        06 hours ago

        your first paragraph seems to imply that I respect rights as a real phenomenon. to be clear, I do not, and so all discourse built up on rights as a premise I also reject.

        I don’t quite follow what you’re saying in your second paragraph.

        • @[email protected]
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          16 hours ago

          Is this SovCit meeting Stirner? Do I have to say the word?


          Following questions:

          Do you see yourself as human?

          Do you value your life and body integrity? Do you value life and body integrity of other beings, like friends?

          Do you avoid experiencing violence?

            • @JubilantJaguar
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              140 minutes ago

              They’re trying to expose you as a hypocrite for wanting things for yourself that you don’t care about others having.

              That said, not valuing rights seems a bit inconsistent with Marxism. IIRC it was the socialist states that insisted that the UN Declaration of Human Rights include such things as “education” and “housing” as basic human rights. Of course, every despotic regime in the world has signed up to that, so perhaps they were just being dishonest.