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		avgcorrection on May 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Maddest My Code Made Anyone > Excuse me, but you don't earn yourself the right to vote by fighting for it until you take it. I didn’t say that I earned it. > Making this into some sort of weird history lesson and berating "the state" (?) is not helpful. Weird? It’s about the causal origin of rights, i.e. history. Weird philosophy lessons on “rights” are not helpful.

Eisenstein on May 18, 2023 [–]

This makes no sense. If you didn't earn them, then what does 'earn' mean? Other people cannot earn something for you.

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