RE: An introduction to 'rights' and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
To quote the man George Carlin again
"Folks, I hate to spoil your fun but-there’s no such thing as rights, okay? They’re imaginary. We made them up! Like the Boogie Man… the Three Little Pigs, Pinocchio, Mother Goose, shit like that. Rights are an idea, they’re just imaginary, they are a cute idea, cute… but that’s all, cute, and fictional."
We have no rights and I don't mean that in the Government stole them and keeps is controlled and in the dark I mean it in the Universe, nature, and everything doesn't give a crap about you sense.
The only rights that you can claim to have are those that you can defend, the only private property you can claim is the one that you can hold onto.
While natures law is tooth and claw those other rights inalienable or god given are gifts of civilisation.
I agree my friend. That fits in with what Benjamin Franklin said:
I'm not sure its even possible to give up liberty.
So as my beliefs go man has no natural rights, nore sacred freedoms.
The closest man comes to having an inalienable right is the freedom of thought and a chance to act on those thoughts by the power of will.
Even the freedom of thought can be stolen from man by accident of birth, brain injury and death nothing is promised to man.
Now governments and civilization aren't a separate unnatural creation but rather a natural human extension of the natural law that might is right.
Civilization it rights, privileges, dutys, and inequities are unfortunately not opt in but rather a case of born in.
Now here is the great part you and I are free to opt out at any time, to tell the people we don't recognise their laws or their taxes.
Now I'm sure that someone reading this will say but then I face coercion and threat to which I say correct however neither of those things negate your freedom of thought or your choice of action.
Personally I wish Franklin wrote that who will not fight for their rights don't deserve them