A platform right to liberty exists only with regard to other humans
A platform right to liberty exists only with regard to other humans
Although (some) liberty invariably exists in human states, the human right to liberty (freedom of the person) has been acknowledged as a fundamental (natural law) human right only recently. As is the case with all rights, including human rights, its acknowledgement is political, it is assumed. By contrast, a platform right to liberty exists only with regard to other humans: all humans are born free from other humans’ control—but certainly not from their states’ control. Of course, whether this platform right actually materialises in any state is a matter of politics (as has been painfully demonstrated through human slavery for thousands of years).
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