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equality and freedom

…aka rights

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but rights are a fiction. we can actually observe equality and freedom.

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Show me an atom of equality, or a molecule of freedom. They don’t exist in the universe. Just like rights, they are a lie made true by our common belief in them.

The idea of Rights is embedded in society. That embedding has a lot of value. It stops people riding roughshod over them.

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you can observe equality. you can see whether people are treated equally.

rights are routinely ignored or revoked.

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so you can observe the freedom in same sex marriages, but you can’t observe the right to be in a same sex marriage? I don’t follow, it’s the same thing.

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you can see whether someone is free, but i can’t see a right.

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