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by JumpCrisscross 1287 days ago
> former sets up an argument that these rights are superfluous

Luxury has more than one meaning [1]. If you prefer the language of counting blessings, so be it, though I could also pedantically quibble it implies a divine underwriting of our fundamental rights.

> the latter fails to recognize areas where the west does poorly at upholding rights, especially the limitations on speech imposed by many western governments

This crosses from pedantic quibbling to missing the forest for the trees.

[1] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/luxury