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Comment Re:Not a right (Score 1) 875

Thanks for inviting me back to the conversation, I didn't realize I had been removed from it.

This isn't about national perspectives, it's about fundamental laws of nature. If my "right" has to be implemented by someone else, it's not my right. If all the telecom companies in Finland go bankrupt, or war erupts, or networks go down, do I still have the right to internet access? How? What are the consequences of the violation of this right?

If this is just a general law directing the telecoms to connect everyone to the grid, fine. But don't call it a "right". The word "right" has a specific connotation as something that can never be taken from you without severe consequences.

Comment Re:Not a right (Score 1) 875

There is a very fundamental distinction.

I can implement my freedom of speech without help from anyone else. I can yell at a crowded hall or an empty room.

As a consequence, I may face disagreement. Nobody has to tolerate my speech. If you disagree with something I say, you are free to exercise your own freedom of speech or freedom of assembly. You CAN hit me over the head. I still exercised free speech, but you unfortunately don't have the right to injure people and would thus face legal consequences.

My right to carry a gun does not require any action from anybody else. Note that there is no right that guns be available or that the store owner sell one to me.

Being shot is a negative consequence in the same way that being slandered is. Misuse of rights and the consequences thereof are what impose on other people. That doesn't change my fundamental assertion that a right is inherent, not something a large corporation provides to you.

Comment Re:Not a right (Score 1) 875

Free speech does not impose anything on anyone. No one has to listen to what you say or respond. You have the right to say what you want, but the government isn't responsible for buying you your soapbox or making people listen.

Increased chance of being shot is a (negative) consequence of the right to bear arms, not an imposition on anyone else in providing you that right.

Who does one complain to when a backhoe cuts their internet connection? The Human Rights Commission?

Comment Re:Israel's right to exist? (Score 1) 644

Why is this even still debated? Israel HAS existed since 1947, and for most of its 7 million inhabitants it is the land they were born in and the only one they have lived in.

You can't support the relocation of 7 million people to make ammends for the wrongful relocation of the Palestinians, who themselves occupy a land previously ruled by the British, the Ottomans, the Romans, the Jews again, etc.

It is pointless to delve into history to try and play the blame game because we're dealing with the lives of people today.

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