willow: "i should be clear that i don’t actually have that much of a problem with the article itself; it is playing the rhetorical game within the boundaries of the legal system, trying to make an argument to protect a genuinely oppressed group. i just think we’d all be better off without appealing to rights"

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willowFeb 4, 2024

so close! human rights actually don’t exist 💖

willowFeb 4, 2024

your grounds of critique are precisely that children do not have positive legal rights and that parents do, so focus on that.

willowFeb 4, 2024

raymond geuss, human rights: a very bad idea

willowFeb 4, 2024

rights discourse is always a rhetorical attempt at a power grab

willow @dreary.dev

i should be clear that i don’t actually have that much of a problem with the article itself; it is playing the rhetorical game within the boundaries of the legal system, trying to make an argument to protect a genuinely oppressed group. i just think we’d all be better off without appealing to rights

February 4, 2024 at 5:46 PM