Aristides

Rights are something humans agree to give each other and make them into law. They are a human invention. All of them have conditions.

Who said anything about authority? You have no guarantee of any rights.

Nonsense, I say exactly the opposite. You have no rights other than what you can defend.

God didn’t give you the rights you have today, humans did and they can also take them away if you are not prepared to defend them yourself. Humans could take any right you have away and god wouldn’t lift a finger to help you get it back. I have no dilemma, I live in the real world. Next you are going to tell me god wrote the second amendment.

But you do.

It started because Putin wants a bunch of Ukraine if not all of it. He annexed Crimea in 2014 and had been fighting a proxy war in Donbas ever since. They even shot down a Malaysian airliner. You would sell out your grandmother to avoid standing up to a tyrant. This is more like 1939 than 1914.

Russia wants regime change in Ukraine. They already started a war.

Sure you can complain about it. Why wouldn’t you complain about losing a right. You can only keep the rights you are prepared to defend. God has nothing to do with it and religions have been more likely to restrict rights they don’t agree with than defend them.

I'm not against rights, I just know where they come from. You go on about women killing babies but all you are doing is removing one persons right and giving it to something else. That's you doing it, not a god so at least accept responsibility and not palm it off on some god.

Every right you have came from legislation written by humans and can be changed by humans. God has nothing to do with it. Equal rights do not exist across humanity. Your truth is your own.

Would't hurt. I think Campbell would have made a pretty good PM but she inherited the Mulroney government baggage and put too much trust in the incompetents running the Conservative campaign. Not Freeland though, she would just keep spending us into bankruptcy.

If you write on a piece of paper. "God said this" doesn't make it the words of any god. Got it.

Tax dollars go to government, not banks. Banks actually pay taxes. https://financialpost.com/news/election-2021/this-is-how-much-the-big-six-banks-would-have-to-pay-if-trudeaus-tax-goes-through

Of course not. I'll ask again, who wrote "God's Right's"? What does god's hand writing look like. Let's see his signature on a piece of paper. Rights are continually being re defined by humans because humans created them.

Who wrote "God's rights" if not humans?

Bush, Cheney broke it.

Humans only have the rights other humans allow them. Women just lost a right when the SCOTUS overturned Roe vs Wade. There is no such thing as an inherent right.

It would help people to qualify because of the increase in take-home pay could be taken into consideration. That would be a choice you would have to make. You can't leave anything to the kids if you were never able to buy a home in the first place. Building homes is not real estate speculation, lack of supply has driven prices up, not speculation. Increasing taxes on capital gains does not encourage people to build homes.

Yes they are, different societies have different interpretations of rights, we even have courts that interpret our own rights and occasionally change them. BTW, slavery is also a human invention. Almost half of the delegates who wrote the US constitution were slave owners including the first, third and fourth presidents.

You would certainly be deducting a large part of it but you would also be able to pay of a mortgage quicker and it would make it easier for first time buyers to get into a home. You could also make it optional. You could not deduct interest and sell with no capital gains tax or accept the deduction and pay tax when you sell.

No, I’m just pointing out that the notion of rights is a human invention and have nothing to do with a god. Rights vary and change according to how humans interpret them.

I just did. Nature won’t give two figs for your imaginary rights. They are a human invention.

They do but there is no questioning their commitment.

First the US and now the Brits. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/rishi-sunak-promises-uks-largest-ever-military-support-package-for-ukraine

Telecoms are protected from foreign competition in Canada, as long as they enjoy that protection, there is nothing wrong with holding them accountable.