Thread: Protesting Confiscation Events

Originally Posted by Rushy

I hold my view because the way I interpret the clause is that being issued an FAL is not an inalienable right as it has conditions

It is an interesting one, many of what we consider basic human rights are also conditional and not inalienable in our society, with the government assuming the power to deny certain rights as they see fit.


For example, freedom of movement is generally considered a basic human right but the authorities will deny that right (by imprisonment etc) if they decide you don't deserve it. The right to participate in government and free elections depends on you being old enough to vote. You could run through the whole list of 'basic human rights' and come up with similar conditions for many of them.

This page: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated) lists "Freedom from State or Personal Interference in the above Rights" as the 30th basic human right, which is a tad ironic given the way governments generally seem to consider it their job to administrate (aka interfere with) peoples rights.

So that reasoning doesn't really distinguish one conditional right/privilege from another apart from the level of qualification to keep or lose it.