Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> > > So, Mr. "Macht macht recht"
Using might to enforce rights is merely one possible manner
Subjectivists try to deny that force follows from the natural right to
defense, because they want to deny the existence of natural rights. Nothing
scares me more than subjectivists in government positions, because they are
the ones who have the greatest potential to become tyrants.
Mike Lorrey
> >
> > You joke about it, but actually "might makes right" can be
> > taken quite literally. Rights without might are paper tigers.
>
> An argument I have found effective in communicating this point:
> During the cold war, the USSR constitution included a guarantee
> of free speech to all citizens, just as the US constitution does.
> Why then was reality such that Americans had moderately free
> speech and Soviets did not? Because in the US, the people with
> the guns (cops, federal agencies, military, and many citizens)
> /believed/ in a greater level of free speech than did the Soviets
> (though still not very free by some measures).