• SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works
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    This is a reason why I kinda like the psudo religious concepts that back US founding documents.

    Now before everyone gets to typing about annoying evangelicals or whatever (trust me I understand) you don’t have to believe in christianity or any other religious institution for the “natural law” concept to work. All it takes is an understanding that human rights are a default and don’t magically disappear because your area’s govt says so.

    It’s summed up nicely by this quote from John Locke.

    “And where the Body of the People, or any single Man, is deprived of their Right, or is under the Exercise of a power without right, and have no Appeal on Earth, there they have a liberty to appeal to Heaven, whenever they judge the Cause of sufficient moment.”

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      All it takes is an understanding that human rights are a default

      Unfortunately, there is considerable disagreement about what the default human rights are.