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by SiempreViernes 815 days ago
Are you genuinely, in good faith, asking if societies can define rules?!
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nickff 815 days ago
Anyone or any group can make a rule; highwaymen and pirates can make rules. The parent comment was about a “right” to do so, which begged the question as to the origin of the right.
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mr_toad 815 days ago
‘We hold these truths to be self evident’

The bottom line is that all rights are an invention.

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