I want to talk about human rights for a moment. Which means we have to discuss why human rights exist. Namely, because of firing squads. Human rights are a list of things you can do without having to worry about firing squads.
Want to say things? Well, we promise you no more firing squads when you say things thanks to freedom of speech.
Want to be gay? Good news, now the firing squads will no longer approach gay people.
Interested in being born with coloured skin? Firing squads are now adapted to filter out skin in their firing squad equations*
Human rights are pathetic, and insulting. To be exempt from oppression in certain circumstances is to still premise one's society on an oppressor.
If we were honest with ourselves then we'd drop the human rights language all together and instead proclaim how things were "firing squad issues."
Just get rid of the firing squads and we won't need a single human right, because there's no one around to persecute us in the first place. Only argument I've ever heard against this reasoning is how our firing squads protect us from other hypothetical firing squads. Which frankly, I'll take that risk. It's the simple equation of certain death to that of speculative death. Bring it on.
Firing squads, and by extension, human rights, are for losers. End the whole thing.
*That one is still pending, but yeah.
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