mister_monster on Nostr: I've come to this recently too. It's hard to come to, but to understand the world you ...

I've come to this recently too. It's hard to come to, but to understand the world you have to face that your ideology might not be "the" reality.

I "believe" in natural rights, as in, I'll enforce them for myself, period. They're a fantastic civic structure for social organization at a large scale. You can reason about how you're born with them, that you can articulate your possession of them means you possess them, it's all great, I stand by them. But they're a civic structure, they don't occur naturally.

What occurs naturally is power dynamics. The flow of power, the law of conservation of power. It is emergent, a trait of life, but it is real and natural.