• Leviathan@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The right to a fair wage while imprisoned. Or else your justice system only serves to produce slaves.

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            10 months ago

            That’s why the rights of people today shouldn’t be dictated by a document written over a century ago. Idolizing a document over human rights is terrible.

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              10 months ago

              Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

              - George Santayana

              That’s the full quote that people like to reduce to the final sentence.

              Documents are a species’ way of remembering the past and establishing core ideals so that future generations don’t have to reinvent those wheels.

              Not to say any given document is without flaws or captures the right values, and as our societies grow and mature so too should the values that we align ourselves with.

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              10 months ago

              Idolizing a document over human rights is terrible.

              Well, to be clear, human rights, other than being a vague philosophical concept, are also a document. Much younger, and much more sensible and uncompromising, but still also a document.

              Hopefully if new rights are deemed to be needed, they can be added.

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                10 months ago

                I mean, if a document has specific rights written on it and society moves forward and has need for new rights to be added then we should be ready to rewrite and add rights as opposed to treating the document as divine and unchangeable.

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              10 months ago

              Well you benefit from that very same document right here (free speech). The first thing tyrants do is get rid of things like constitutions.

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        10 months ago

        Sadly. We should change that, but you-know-who would be against it, like they had been throughout the nation’s history.

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        10 months ago

        I totally disagree. Why, someone could frame you for murder and have you for a slave before you know it. I wouldn’t take that chance as long as the Justice system is fallible.