Question to lai from a hardcore technocratic authoritarian.
How can an individual have "rights"?"
"Rights" as a concept have no practical existence unless they can be acted upon and enforced.
What is to stop a group of individuals aka a government from denying the "rights" of the individual and thus making them void?
Only a government can have rights. And they can have these rights only because they have a chance of protecting and enforcing them.
In everycase and on every matter the group can trump the individual. The individual is useless unless viewed in the context of a "government" (organized body). Without a strong centralized government what good will "free will" do. Unless you work within the context of a group all your actions are meaningless as they will not be able to affect the world (in relation to man) only your immediate surroundings. At best an individual can have privileges bestowed from a higher artificial power never "rights".
How can you defend a concept ("rights") which has neither corporeal relavance nor practical existence, for the individual at least?
sorry this is so rushed, i'm at work. If you respond i can talk in more detail and with better syntax.
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