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Originally Posted by Willravel
Rights are as real as money. You can buy things with money, just as you can enjoy rights, but they are simply not absolute. Their value can change and even collapse under the wrong circumstances.
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Money will always buy you stuff, but rights only protect you as long as people either agree on them or (the important part) someone can get away with taking advantage of your rights. Although I could definitely make arguements that money isn't real either...the US dollar isn't even backed by the gold standard anymore but that's getting off topic.
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I really don't know where this idea that something which doesn't exist outside of a social construct must not exist at all comes from.
It's baffling.
And demonstrably false.
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I see your point but you take it a bit literally. 'Real' should be something consistent i.e. part of reality. Rights aren't consistent. Not even day to day are they consistent.