Bernd 10/20/2019 (Sun) 16:05:59 No.30697 del
>>30684
Well, yeah, ofc it's all made up.
Let's say I'm on an island, all alone. Do my rights exist? Well in my mind maybe, but these rights only can be "materialized" via practice and they only make sense in relation with others.
For example free speech. I could say whatever I want but it wouldn't matter anyway to noone around to hear it, or noone around to get offended by it, or noone around to say "shut your mouth" to me. It would be pointless and actually non-existent.
However if someone else would get on that island, right at that moment they would all make sense, they could regulate the relation, the interaction between us.
However if the other person would have a gun (and I would fear for my life/health). He could pretty much regulate what I could do. Where would be my rights? It would depend on what he would allow, it would depend on the temper of the one in the position of power.
But what if I could get the gun? I could allow or deny things from him, on my whim. Since there's no other power telling me what can I allow for him, it's just me.
Where are these so called human or natural or whatever rights originate from? From the abstinence of the authority. The state is stronger than me but allows me to have rights, to speak freely (to some extend, it it's not about... the Holocaust, most notably). And the Hungarian state is forced by the community of nations, who are stronger than the Hungarian state, to allow me having rights. It's a sad truth that in practice not the Hungarians got together and decided that what rights can the members of the community have.