Philosophical Questions: Rights

[ysabetwordsmith]

People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

Under our government are there any rights that you have but shouldn’t? How about rights you don’t have but should?


I'm disinclined to rule out individual rights, but some rights that corporations or the government have to abuse others should not be so.

There are a great many rights that people should have but don't. At the moment, the right to be safe in their own homes, or on the street, and not get kidnapped by masked thugs. Women need the right to own their bodies and make all their own medical decisions, without being murdered for getting pregnant. And so on.

Comments

[siliconshaman]

Rights that are conditional aren't rights, they're privileges.

That said, corporations should not have the same rights as actual people. Money does not equal free speech. Either that, or they should be subject to the same legal punishments...

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Rights that are conditional aren't rights, they're privileges.<<

They're basically all privileges anyway, or worse, paid features. :/ You have only the "rights" you can defend with force. Right now America is demonstrating that it doesn't think anyone has rights. They're going to find out why that is a bad idea.

>>Either that, or they should be subject to the same legal punishments...<<

I find Terramagne's corporate death penalty an effective means of penalizing reprehensible behavior.

Re: Thoughts

[abyssal_sylph]

"I find Terramagne's corporate death penalty an effective means of penalizing reprehensible behavior."

Oh? Did you write a poem about it? :3c

[abyssal_sylph]

This is props a more niche version of the rights convo. But I find that rights of privacy are being erroted by the surveilance of children on the internet. It's already bad enough that people police eachother on the internet for stuff they should be able to make, its worse when you can get legally persucuted for :(

IDK how it is nowadays, but this reminds me of how YouTube could just stop targeting adds at kids but put most of that responsibility to creators, especially small content creators.