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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a

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Covid is a great example of why this doesn’t work. It was clearly made in a bio-lab. It leaked.

lol im done

The government is a tool, not an entity. Rights protect us against people that would use the government against us. Like Elon Musk here!

As for disease and harm, think about healthcare - countries where the government provides healthcare have healthier citizens than America does. Objectively, it's better to let the government handle disease. Even China has surpassed US life expectancy! How could you look at that and then conclude "There is no amount of tax revenue that will make that happen."?

As for the dead, they are robbed of freedom by nature itself. Time, chemistry, physics, simple material forces are humanity's greatest enemy. To defeat them, we have to work together.

Gimme Newspeak already. The world isn't cyberpunk enough yet.

Yahoo answers held on for decades after it was relevant, I'm sure Reddit will be around in 15 years.

Sadly, Remindbot will be reminding a ghost town populated only by other bots

So-called "negative liberty" is only innate if you accept superstition. Without souls or other such magical concepts, we are slaves to our mortality. Freedom is something we must fight for every day of our lives, and the moment we stop living our freedom is gone too. How free are the sick? The starving? The children gunned down in schools?

We will only be free when we defeat death, and we can only do that by working together. Until then, we need a government to ensure our right to life isn't taken from us by a cold or famine or jungle cats.

The dead are not free. This is where I reject the Founder's ideology.

Our mortality literally does mean we don't have inalienable rights - rights are things we fight to have and maintain, not something we're just born with by virtue of being alive. All rights can be taken away if they aren't protected, they aren't sacred or magic or God-given.

The Founders considered these rights inalienable because they were superstitious and believed in immortal souls. In their minds, death didn't really rob people of their rights because their spirit would always be free.

Without 1700s superstition to justify the concept it doesn't really work.

And if they shoot you for resisting arrest you won't be struggling much after that.

Nothing is inalienable.

Sure! But if you have to fight for a right it's not really inalienable, is it?

Uh if a jungle cat wants you to shut the fuck up then your inalienable right to free speech won't protect you lol

But then what does /c/ mean?

If we're lemmings, then these are /c/liffs

love to wear animal flesh

I was /u/outwrangle for 13 years (I actually predated the Digg exodus!), deleted that account after 2020 (I still think they deleted Chapo as a political hit job) to stick to my local Iowa subs as /u/Emma_Lazarus

I've abandoned that account too now. I don't even use a mobile app, but I've wanted to leave since I was an SRS brigadier way back before therr were alternatives. I'm really hoping this is it and I never am drawn back.

Shout-out to SRS while I'm at it - y'all helped me realize I'm trans. It took a while to sink in, but I get it now.

What are we supposed to do, go "outside"?