minarchist
Regular Member
Fool covered in red, white, and blue: "This country is great because it has granted us so many rights in comparison to what other countries have granted their citizens!"
Truth: Governments don't grant rights. Rights are pre-existing, natural, inherent properties of being human (if you're a theist, you may claim that they come from your deity). Some governments have had periods of doing a relatively respectable job respecting these rights, but the U.S. government, for the last several decades has done a piss poor job respecting these rights. Furthermore, blind submission to a symbol of authority (e.g., the flag of any particular government), is antithetical to the spirit of liberty. It is very ironic that worshippers of such an allegedly free country so drastically undermine their own point.
Truth: Governments don't grant rights. Rights are pre-existing, natural, inherent properties of being human (if you're a theist, you may claim that they come from your deity). Some governments have had periods of doing a relatively respectable job respecting these rights, but the U.S. government, for the last several decades has done a piss poor job respecting these rights. Furthermore, blind submission to a symbol of authority (e.g., the flag of any particular government), is antithetical to the spirit of liberty. It is very ironic that worshippers of such an allegedly free country so drastically undermine their own point.
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