In Reply to: Are you a total idiot? posted by Triode_Kingdom on May 5, 2007 at 18:32:40:
I can't really blame you for thinking that all kinds of people have "human rights" but it's one of delusions we like to maintain - Darfur is a clear illustration that there aren't human "rights" that you can maintain in any way. You're born without any "rights" as such. What you do have is GUARANTEES, as said, which come with citizenship of various countries and which vary with what the countries guarantee.
The situation is unclear because in many cases these guarantees are referred to as "rights" e.g. the legal right of the consumer to which you refer. But these "rights" are offered by the state legislature, and changed whenever the legislature changes, so they are offered to the individual and not implicit in the individual.
Reading through some more of the posts it seems Curcio did make guarantees to be on the end of a telephone, and this being the case he should stand by such a guarantee.
What gets me is people bleating on about human "rights" without bothering to do a bit of deeper thinking about how the world really works.
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Follow Ups
- No, just over your head - andy evans 02:45:40 05/06/07 (3)
- Addendum - andy evans 03:04:44 05/06/07 (2)
- Thank you for posting such a thorough confirmation -nt- - Triode_Kingdom 05:20:18 05/07/07 (1)
- Let's have reasons not viewpoints if you're serious. - andy evans 05:48:49 05/07/07 (0)