I would like to present a counter-narrative to an earlier thread.

https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/12881923.html#q12882007

Someone argued:

>“Rights are not protected by law, but by the citizen’s willingness to use violence against the authorities when they are not respected.”

I would argue that rights arise in a non-written culture. Englishmen in the seventeenth century had some loose, hazy, barely articulable notions of rights. Somehow these notions gave rise to their culture of rights, and finally that culture culminated in the American War for Independence.

Rights are protected not just by violence – violence is a small part of the picture. Rights are mainly protected by a community of people who all understand rights the same way, and who support each other's understanding with a mutually comprehensible narrative.

I look forward to the time when Americans can sit down peacefully, with a small cold glass of beer for each interlocutor, to discuss the shared culture of American rights.