Rights are, by definition, inalienable. You’re born with them and the government needs to protect that fact, mostly from itself.
Privileges are granted by the government. They can be taken away by the government. Calling the privileges in our Charter “rights” is just 1984 newspeak.
We don’t really have rights. We have privileges.
Rights are, by definition, inalienable. You’re born with them and the government needs to protect that fact, mostly from itself.
Privileges are granted by the government. They can be taken away by the government. Calling the privileges in our Charter “rights” is just 1984 newspeak.