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I do not think so.

You restrict the rights of children to work. What if they want to? Instead they have to sell chiclets on the streets.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

It’s a fallacy for a reason.

Why not?

But you don’t restrict the rights of everyone to be alone with children so as to protect children. Isn’t that so?

Still appealing to the populace. Cringe-worthy.

My only point is that restricting someone’s rights is not the same as protecting children. You’re welcome.

No. In order to protect someone they must first exist outside of the imagination.

Yes. Do you believe you’re protecting some potential human, in some potential situation, at some time and place in the future? What does he look like?

I don’t think restricting someone’s rights protects anyone. Protecting a child from being shot involves putting life and limb on the line, or neutrali...

Of course.

The idea that some men must work for governments in order for rights to be meaningful and useful is nonsense. I can confer a right to you and defend i...

Clearly the overriding consensus here is to restrict gun rights, to defang the populace, and to turn whatever remnants of social power that remain int...

We know that the DA, among others, campaigned on getting Trump. Statin’s secret police chief’s infamous quote, “You show me the man and I’ll show you ...

It’s about time. Very interesting. It’s safe to say that everything they cried foul about Trump was a reflection of their own impulses. They are indic...

Is that how you protect someone’s right to life, by begging the government to restrict our rights? Or in other cases, abortion control, the right to l...

Obviously I see it differently. I own property because I purchased it or made it. But then again, I only own the title. The government doesn’t claim t...

They do not protect your rights, and the ongoing attempt to restrict your rights is evidence of this. I am down for any law that is just and protects ...

Maybe you didn’t get the gist but your continuous invoking of democracy is a trite piece of propaganda to disguise your deep-seated authoritarianism. ...

Certainly not you. Certainly not the government. Neither of us can name one right in the Bill of Rights that has not been violated. So how can you tru...

Thanks for the summary. I do not believe rights are conferred by god or nature, which is absurd. Rights can only be conferred by men. But the idea tha...

No need for sour grapes. What’s your hip political theory called?

Legal positivism is quite medieval. But then again maybe you’re speaking of some other theory, perhaps one arising in the disco era. No wonder.

You make rules for family. Very good. You can govern your own household. Except it doesn’t follow that you or anyone else ought to have the same autho...

Exactly, “the people” is in fact not the people, the flesh-and-blood residents of a given jurisdiction. Like the “general good”, it’s some abstract un...

The constitution still allows slavery and taxation. I do not look at it as any standard-bearer of rights, but nonetheless, the bill of rights says “th...

Human nature has already taken its course and I’ve long resigned to my fate as someone’s serf. I can only hope that I pass before it self-immolates.

Since people make rules all the time, and since you’re a person, what rules have you made?

So be it. I suppose the one consolation is that history looks kindly on the just, while those who control us live on in a rogues gallery.

To argue that only those in power get to make rules is absurd. No man is good enough to be another’s master

I would. Of course I oppose any monopoly on violence. Arms races and the control of resources by that monopoly is occurring right now.

And if all those restrictions disappeared tomorrow would you start driving through red lights and murdering your fellows?

I believe rights are naturally founded, derived from human nature, and not the edicts of those in power. I believe I and others have the right to defe...

Maybe you can, but I cannot abide by controlling people’s lives and letting them control ours. The ease with which you advocate for it only hardens th...

I believe both, that no one’s rights should be restricted and that innocent people do not deserve to die. So any attempt to ameliorate the situation s...

Last I checked I’m a part of society. Restricting my rights does not benefit me. It benefits you personally.

A justice system requires that we punish the guilty and protect the innocent. But you would see them restrict my rights when I have done nothing to de...

The same motives with the categories broadened. A compliant populace and safety from the unvirtuous inheres in both, I’m afraid.

So long as he abides by the rules you’ve set out for him. That you get to set the rules and I don’t only fuels the paranoia, because someone will take...

The racist roots of American gun control extends even to today. Like segregated governments and their KKK enforcers, confiscation of weapons is above ...

Collective defense and individual defense are one and the same. What you are speaking of is the monopoly on violence, which is hardly collective or in...

People with guns protect you. Is that so difficult to admit? I guess one can be proud of this privilege and sleep soundly while others defend you whil...

The reason most countries can afford to disarm their populace and claim moral victory is because American weaponry protects them while they sleep. A c...

Both of whom have guns and other weapons. How would you defend yourself and your family from these threats?

I never made that claim, I'm afraid. But I wager that for anyone who would murder a child, with a gun or otherwise, such an injustice is worth the uti...

I'm only saying that I think Tzeentch was writing about school shootings in particular, if his initial post is any indication. If so, his claims aren'...

But that the shooter chose a softer target than one of higher security shows that she at least thought twice about it, I think.

I believe he was talking about school shooters in particular. "Records show 70% of school shootings since 1999 have been carried out by people under 1...

I don't think it's likely that someone would start shooting if he knew that everyone else would start shooting back.