Deniers of natural rights have no place in civil society.
“But human rights are just like heaven and like God. It’s just a fictional story that we have invented and spread around. It may be a very nice story. It may be a very attractive story. You want to believe it. But it’s just a story, it’s not a reality. It is not a biological reality. Just as jellyfish and woodpeckers and ostriches have no rights. Homo sapiens have no rights also. Take a human,…
In the span of two generations, what was once called the “left” has gone from protesting for free speech to applauding mass censorship. The “left” has gone from opposing war and symbolically placing flowers in the rifle barrels of soldiers to demanding war in Ukraine to the last Ukrainian. It has gone from finding inspiration in the peaceful resistance of Gandhi and Martin Luther King to…