• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    That seems more to me a declaration of what is deserved, not where it comes from and who enforces it. In fact, it specifically says it’s up to the people to reclaim those rights if taken.

    What is given by god cannot be taken, so if the rights can be taken and must be defended…

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      11 hours ago

      Well you know the bastard, he’s all “it’s yours help yourself to it”. Or it’s just the rhetorical justification for the principles these people established their government. They aren’t saying that physically you can’t stop people from having these freedoms, but that there is no moral justification to deny them and that it is a moral right to attain them by force if necessary.