• tallwookie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    yeah I suppose you have a point - societal rules do exist and play a part of the ruleset that governs how we interact with each other, but “our” rules/rights in America and the western world are not the same as the rules/rights in other places/times.

    if rights aren’t intrinsic and/or universal, and they change over time, are they merely a figment of our collective imagination?

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      1 year ago

      if rights aren’t intrinsic and/or universal, and they change over time, are they merely a figment of our collective imagination?

      I mean I don’t really believe in a sets of universal or inherent set of rights. I do agree that at the end of the day, they are social constructs and change over time and space.

      But I wouldn’t call them a “figment of our collective imagination” either because that implies that they are not important or “real”.

      I do think they are somewhat important, I do think they “exist” in some form, even though they are not material in nature and are, in some ways, just “made up” by humans.