[meaydinli]

You are making the same mistake Elon is making. You don't know enough about the subject to even be aware of how much you don't know and what you are missing. You might be very competent in another subject, but that doesn't grant you the right to write in such a demeaning tone.

[rdiddly]

I don't need to be granted that right, I was born with it, just like you with your far more demeaning and ignorant comment about things (me) you know nothing about.

[acdha]

You have a right to speak. You do not have the right to be taken seriously when you’re speaking outside of your areas of expertise.

[rdiddly]

Not a problem. I don't need to be taken seriously in general or by people whom I likewise don't take seriously.

[jimjimjim]

Sorry, you aren’t born with any rights. Those that you may appear to have were granted to you by a society. Never forget that

[rdiddly]

No way. If I were a solitary hunter-gatherer I would still have the right to speak. In fact I seem to gain more rights the fewer other humans are around, so obviously those rights are not coming from other humans. That's how you know they're innate. But if I'm alone there's no one to hear my speech of course, which actually sounds pretty good right about now. I hate this "community," so why am I on here talking about Twitter, something I have never given a shit about? Well I got sucked in. I logged out of HN months ago as a "participant" for what I intended to be the last time, but then as a reader I ended up logging back in so I could use the "hide" feature (because I'm not interested in the vast majority of articles) and from there was gradually tempted into making a small comment here and there, and then today just being sick and tired of hearing about the delicate majesty of Twitter, well I guess I wanted to call bullshit. Twitter is shit and I DGAF about it or Elon. Anyway sorry I didn't read any of these replies, some of them actually look like good ones, and good-faith attempts to answer the question. All I did was reply to the shitty ones. I've asked YC to delete my account, couple times now, but they continue to not do it, so I take it that's not a thing that is done? So HN is just like any other social media site I guess - an addiction you have to break. And not enough hamsters running in the wheels that power it, to provide for an account deletion feature. Anyway I apologize for taking my hate of you guys, out on you guys. I know that sounds sarcastic as hell but I mean it literally. If I hate everybody, that's my problem to deal with. Which I will do by forgetting it all, probably. So have fun y'all and go outside.

[mod]

I'm born with the right to do whatever I want that doesn't violate the laws of physics.

The rights I appear to lose were taken away from me by a society.

I actually don't ever forget that.

[briandon]

Your view on individual rights is far from universal. Never forget that.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcrip...

Or, alternatively:

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." (from Article 1)

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

[jimjimjim]

And if society collapses and whatever hellscape that replaces it withholds those “rights” from you?