B1rd wrote:
This concept that consent of your rulers is a prerequisite for self-determination is quite funny.
It's all fun and games until you say the same thing to your mom and she takes your computer away.
The same also applies to states in principle, except instead of only having your computer taken away, you also get shot.
What's funny about this, the concept of power? Cause I can tell you it's not funny, and many people get hurt every day because they think that they have rights that are different in nature from the protection they get from their government. But not so. It's all that rights are: A promise and a threat. Like your mom granting you the right to stay up for an hour longer. But only tonight!
B1rd wrote:
When will people realize that arbitrary rulings of various administrative bodies aren't the source of human rights?
Human rights only exist as an idea, that's the thing, they don't exist like anything that's tangible that you could touch or point towards. You've got it entirely backwards. THE ONLY ENTITY that can grant you something as abstract as "human rights" consitently, is the entity that has enough power to force everyone to consistently live as if the idea of human rights existed like something real.
Let's make it a bit more clear using this example: Do Nation-borders exist? I can assure you they do not, not in the sense a tree or an apple exists - when I was hiking in a forest between Germany and Austria, there wasn't a yellow-glowing godly line that stated
"this is Germany's border btw". Borders only exist in the sense that a powerful entity (government) forces us to act as if there was this yellow-glowing godly line - in the case of my little hiking-trip with no consequence.
It's the same with human rights. Various administrative bodies ARE a source of human rights. I might even add that they are the most consistent and reliable source of human rights.