chimera wrote Yesterday at 7:31am:

There are no absolute or inalienable rights.

That which is granted can be curbed, restricted or withdrawn.

chimera wrote Yesterday at 9:05am:

Well, parliament is sovereign.

So-called freemen did not enter the colony without granted rights.

Arthur Phillip established the colony of NSW as a slave-free colony... "There can be no slavery in a free land, and consequently no slaves".

Of course, he didn't need the black kind; he had the white kind, deemed bonded into servitude by parliament.

chimera wrote Yesterday at 9:36am:

Any harsh dealings by Phillip were not arbitrary or gratuitous on his part.

As had happened with the first English colonists in America over 150 years earlier, Parliament had grossly overestimated the land's capacity to support a colony of Europeans.

Phillip was granted the powers to govern the colony, enacting and enforcing whatever laws he deemed necessary to ensure the colony's survival.

In its first few years, the colony of NSW was more like a blueprint for 'Lord of the Flies' than the idyll that the likes of Sir Joseph Banks had envisoned and advised 20 years earlier.

chimera wrote Yesterday at 10:01am:

Rabbit hunting in Australia was right from the get-go, 1859.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Feb 8^th, 2026 at 8:41am:


Meister if rights do not exist in reality, how can you tell whether reality conflicts with the paperwork?

Is this question impossible for you answer: what rights do you have in reality?

How do you even talk about the rights that exist in reality if you insist on defining them out of existence? Have you invented an alternative lexicon to use when talking about reality, or do you simply refuse to acknowledge reality? I guess, based on your elaborate tapdancing, it is the latter.

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Are you seriously asking me to define reality for you? Have you never come across it before?

freediver wrote on Feb 8^th, 2026 at 7:54am:


"Do something"?

Surely depends on what you are considering doing......


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Who says it will be "consistent and predictable?  You?

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Yes,  INDIVIDUAL human  behaviour (or individual nations led by psycopaths) can trump morality as delineated in the UN UDHR.

'Some of the oldest cold case murders solved by police, largely through advancements in DNA, genetic genealogy, and fingerprint technology, date back over 50–60 years.'

A 58 year old murder was pinned onto the crim. They are still working on Tutankhamun of 1324 BC.

Rights come in a variety:
right off it
half-right
righteo
alright
dead right
hard right
right? right? (with increasing belligerence)
and so on