i mean i want to say the rights are guaranteed when they’re made explicit and the powers to protect those rights are delegated from the citizenry to the government, and if that doesn’t make it clear i’m a bit of an idealist i don’t know what else will. like, you don’t get to choose where you’re born so you don’t get to choose what you “voluntarily delegate” to the government, and emigration is rarely easy so your options when society chooses opposite you are limited.
i mean i want to say the rights are guaranteed when they’re made explicit and the powers to protect those rights are delegated from the citizenry to the government, and if that doesn’t make it clear i’m a bit of an idealist i don’t know what else will. like, you don’t get to choose where you’re born so you don’t get to choose what you “voluntarily delegate” to the government, and emigration is rarely easy so your options when society chooses opposite you are limited.
hooray.
or when society votes in some nazis that amend those rights and now you are a non human.
the theme is: all govs are pieces of shit.