Governments have a say in your rights every single time.
When they put fences around a cliff they are infringing upon your right to throw yourself off a cliff.
That’s part of the powers of governments, deciding if you have the right to do something.
So why the fuck are you advocating for the government to take away more of your rights? Why can’t I throw myself off a fucking cliff if I want to? It’s my fucking God-given right. Stop being such a simp for the boot.
Because I fucking hate walking around the city and having to hold my breath because there’s a smoker in a 10m radius.
The same reason that I advocate for the government to not allow people to buy guns.
A 10 metre radius, hey? Fucking exaggeration, much.
The argument for taking away guns is because by taking away the individual liberty to own a gun you are increasing the total liberty of people to not get shot.
It’s all about the level of acceptable risk. If you were to use your rational brain to think about this instead of your emotions you would come to the realisation that cars are more dangerous than people smoking on the street, so perhaps we should ban all cars.
And if you’re at a pub and you don’t like people smoking, perhaps you can go somewhere else. Fucking walk inside. Leave the smoker section. It’s not that fucking hard.
God-given? That’s your go to?
Fuck the authorities because god says I can do what I like?
Also where is it you think the smokers section comes from?
I’m not saying what they are doing isn’t bullshit, it very much is, but “who are they to tell me to do this new thing, I can continue to do this other thing they told me I can do, because I don’t have to listen to them” is some Olympian level mental gymnastics
God given rights comes from the American Constitution. It was purposely put there because it is undeniable for all people that it applies equally (Well, except for the whole slavery thing, but the Americans aren’t that bright).
We decided that it was better for the society to take away some liberties to increase the total amount of liberties for all people.
If we are to take away someone’s liberty without increasing the total liberty for all people, then we have reduced the total amount of liberty in the world, which I would argue is backwards of the ultimate goal.
