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Not contending no difference between a right and a privilege. Rights are rules about what’s allowed or owed according to legal systems, ethical concepts or a civilization’s conventions. They are not absolute but neither are they infinitely malleable. Where distinctions are made about implementation depends on how you approach the origin of what’s allowed or owed. Rights can be revoked from a legal standpoint. In the broadest sense we all have the ethical right to self defense, but not necessarily the right to own and use a firearm where that right has been legally prohibited (you might say infringed) by statute owing to a criminal punishment.
Rights are not granted by a government so how can they regulate them. They cannot.
Privileges are governed by rules created by the gov't.
Rights are absolute. Privileges not so much.
Rights cannot be revoked but, by imprisonment, you might be able to exercise them. IMO, a criminal convicted of murder still has the right to own a gun but he cannot have access due to his incarceration. If released, then he has re-acquired his ability to possess what he/she owns.
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[–] Drunkenst ago (edited ago)
Not contending no difference between a right and a privilege. Rights are rules about what’s allowed or owed according to legal systems, ethical concepts or a civilization’s conventions. They are not absolute but neither are they infinitely malleable. Where distinctions are made about implementation depends on how you approach the origin of what’s allowed or owed. Rights can be revoked from a legal standpoint. In the broadest sense we all have the ethical right to self defense, but not necessarily the right to own and use a firearm where that right has been legally prohibited (you might say infringed) by statute owing to a criminal punishment.
[–] thelma 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Rights are not granted by a government so how can they regulate them. They cannot.
Privileges are governed by rules created by the gov't.
Rights are absolute. Privileges not so much.
Rights cannot be revoked but, by imprisonment, you might be able to exercise them. IMO, a criminal convicted of murder still has the right to own a gun but he cannot have access due to his incarceration. If released, then he has re-acquired his ability to possess what he/she owns.
One does not need a gun to kill.
[–] Drunkenst ago
The antics of semantics, but definitions is definitions.