• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    unfortunately, those are dignities, not rights. rights are a legal contract between you and your governing body. rights are granted. dignities are the things that are intrinsically connected to your personhood, your humanity, or both.

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      So if your governing body decides you don’t have rights, then you don’t have those rights.

      Edit: it seems like rights are only available to people who have enough power, money, and/or influence over the state to persuade the state to grant them the rights they desire.

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        That is generally how rights work, yes. But not how rights for people who believe in a humanist moral outlook think should work.

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          precisely. when we talk about who runs the government and how they should operate it, we are generally (i can’t speak for everyone) trying to navigate getting the rights the government grants us to align as perfectly as possible with the dignities we possess