Aussie wrote on Apr 16
th, 2018 at 9:28pm:
freediver wrote on Apr 16
th, 2018 at 9:24pm:
Rights don't arise from a piece of paper Aussie. They arise from your willingness to defend them.
Rubbish. The only rights I have are those given to me by the Constitution, Statute or common law. None of them are regarded as
inalienable in Australia.
They are recognised by law. That is not the same thing as how you got them. Which is why you are struggling so hard to disagree with me.
Rights don't arise from a piece of paper Aussie. They arise from your willingness to defend them.
Why (other than because they think it's a good idea, duh) do you think institutions like the rule of law, democracy, personal liberty etc were adopted in so many former British colonies Aussie?
Quote:None of them are inalienable (they can all be nuked by Statute) like the right to bear arms is regarded in America where the right, it seems, came from a sky fairy, and then recognised and enshrined in the Constitution.
Any law that can be written - statutory, common, constitutional, can also be unwritten the same way. Or just ignored, like the right to bear arms.