Why does one have to fight for things that are by rights theirs in this day and age?
451596
What makes you think you have a right to anything? \n\nSuggest reading Rights in the wikipedia.\n\n"There are two fundamental controversies surrounding the notion of rights: First, there is the question of the basis for rights (on what basis can rights be said to exist). Second, there is the question of the content of rights (what the rights of a person actually are)."\n\nWhat is a right?\n"At its most fundamental, a right is a claim, on other persons, that is acknowledged and perhaps reciprocated among the principals associated with that claim." \n \nWho granted  you these rights?
884002
They need rights because everyone needs rights.\n\nWe can't discriminate against children. We have to protect them because they can't decide for themselves.\n\nThe only have the same rights that we all have - but they have some special consideration for their vunerability.\n\nDo you need rights? Or can someone sell you into slavery?
766540
You only get the rights you can afford. Disabled folk need someone to fight for their rights or get left on the wayside.
689590
i tend to fight more for other peoples rights.
908977
Its up to you.  You can let other people fight for your freedom if you are okay with that.  Enjoy.
788484
u gotta go thru a process to protect everyone's rights, you, the other person, the insitution.  wheneven a person canno0t handle their own affairs it is time to take action.  if a person goes along, not much of a probelem just follow procedures.  if person does not, then you gotta get a court order
861938
One man's fight for his/her rights is terrorism for another. That does not justify attacks like 9/11 but if you pick up any history book, the majority of wars of independence have been won by retaliating against prevailing, strong authorities by covert tactics, at least initially. This includes American independence as well. If you were to consider the British view point at that time, the founding fathers could not have been considered very favorably! Unfortunately, modern day armaments are so destructive that the innocent always suffer, more than at any time in the history of man. While this makes their actions criminal, it does not remove the validity of their demands.
111006
Strong words, but to me this sounds like the same basic argument I hear from feminists. “Why have we abandoned the fight?”.\n\nIMO people have abandoned the fight because the fight has been fought and won. People were fighting to be free and to have equal rights and responsibilities. They have those things.  And one of the freedoms they have a freedoms to do whatever the hell they ant with their lives.\n\nIf a woman decides she wants to get married, have 6 kids and be a housewife for the next 60 years many feminists are outraged. When a black man decides they want to work a 9-5 job and never go into debt to buy a house you are outraged. What you are both forgetting is that freedom has to mean freedom. If people aren’t free to do those things just because YOU think they aren’t worthy lifestyles than they aren’t free at all. They’ve just exchanged Jim Crow for Johnson Pressley. Instead of being forced to sit at the back of the bus you would force them to sit at the back without realising that you are still telling them where to sit against there will.\n\nGive it a rest Buddy. Give your Brothers and Sisters the benefit of making their own decisions about how they live their lives.  I agree there are a lot of things stacked against black people in America, but people are free to fight against them if they wish. The point being that they have to wish to do so. You telling black men they have to fight those things even when they clearly don’t want to is simply racism directed at blacks by blacks. If anything that is worse than racism coming form whites. AT least when it was the whites the enemy was outside.
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I might look at it from an angle that no one seems to think about anymore.  Instead of focusing on the rights of being a citizen, focus on the responsibilities of being a citizen. You know the whole "ask not what your country can do for you, rather ask what you can do for your country" thing.\nPeople always seem to want better healthcare, better schools, better roads, etc but don't seem to be willing to pay the extra taxes, or become active with the school system, or the hundreds of other things that can make a difference.
61478
Laws were created with the general public in mind, not individuals. With that said, you find the fiercest lawyer you can.\nYou fight your cause until the very end, even if you don't win. Never give up.
36566
Your country can only be free if there are certain rules to ensure your freedom. If everyone were completely free from rules, we would be spending most of our time guarding our property.
1030449
Noone fights for God. People fight for themselves and their own selfish  desires. To claim any act of violence in the name of God...ANY GOD, is a load of crap.
957346
it is very important to me in the sense that I do not like being coerced, controlled or pressurised by other people. I hope that in exchange i respect other people's rights as individuals. However, I can see the need and sense in laws that restrict the rights of the individual to kill or hurt others for example. Indeed we need some laws that restrain us as by allowing us total autonomy such as allowing us to kill another for example, this could restrict individuals freedoms and autonomy itself. i.e our right not to be killed by another and to exist.\n\nIf i am told to do something by someone in a way that i feel i could do it better, it does annoy me mentally.\n\nPerhaps that is why i am opposed to religion, i do not even like the idea of an omnipotent being controlling me or dictating to me.
439885
Because it is the right thing to do. It is just not right for people to be opressed by their govenment like it is here in the states.
1103965
Your rights are what governments want to give you on a day to day basis. Depends on how much money ya got.
95764
Die fighting for freedom.
1109062
I fight for freedom and love, or I would if i had an opportunity to.