"Now, "rights" can be created by law, but those are a different meaning of the word."
I read a few of your posts, and it felt like reading the old testament - full of self contradictions, the only constant is you don't like 'government'.
You seem to have little regard for the fact that your countrymen have laid down their lives for your rights. The only reason we don't have 'Divine right of Kings' is because we cut off their heads, and we don't have slavery because those that support it have been shot or convinced at gunpoint. Women have the right to vote because they invented the letter bomb and burned down houses of MPs that voted against them.
Every right you enjoy, from a fair trial to your very freedom, has been won in blood and while you pontificate about 'unexpected, marvelous free market' (which existed for thousands of years, Kongō Gumi was incorporated in 578 CE) society becomes more polarized and likelihood we will resort to good old ways of settling differences increases.
You evidently missed when I wrote that the function of government is to be the guarantor of rights.
> You seem to have little regard for the fact that your countrymen have laid down their lives for your rights
You would be very, very wrong about that. I have many family members who fought in American wars, all the way back to the American Revolution. I know what they fought for, and it wasn't socialism.
> Every right you enjoy, from a fair trial to your very freedom, has been won in blood
You're right, and I enjoy those rights and thank our American soldiers for fighting for them. You are very, very wrong about my feelings about GIs. My own father volunteered to fight the Nazis at the sharp end of the spear, and volunteered again for the Korean War at the sharp end. He also served in a support role during the Vietnam War. I take American freedom very, very seriously.
I am grateful for all American servicemen and women who risked their lives for American freedom.
I read a few of your posts, and it felt like reading the old testament - full of self contradictions, the only constant is you don't like 'government'.
You seem to have little regard for the fact that your countrymen have laid down their lives for your rights. The only reason we don't have 'Divine right of Kings' is because we cut off their heads, and we don't have slavery because those that support it have been shot or convinced at gunpoint. Women have the right to vote because they invented the letter bomb and burned down houses of MPs that voted against them.
Every right you enjoy, from a fair trial to your very freedom, has been won in blood and while you pontificate about 'unexpected, marvelous free market' (which existed for thousands of years, Kongō Gumi was incorporated in 578 CE) society becomes more polarized and likelihood we will resort to good old ways of settling differences increases.