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  • Posted by $ blarman 2 years, 7 months ago
    While I like the idea, I found the actual text clunky.

    Here's what I would have focused on:
    1) the right of the individual to seek gainful employ regardless of health status
    2) the right of the individual to engage in business contract negotiation and relationships regardless of health status
    3) the right of the individual to be compensated for any business revenues lost as a result of emergency measures which restrict a business' function or capacity to function, including the absolution of responsibility for any and all taxes for the period of the emergency measures
    4) the right of the individual to public accommodation regardless of health status, including but not limited to public services such as transportation, education, public defense and adjudication of claims, healthcare services, etc.
    5) the right of the individual to make his voice heard in the public sphere and not be quashed by the censorship of self-appointed technological monopolies
    6) the right of the individual to refuse profferred medical advice or care for themselves and their families without repercussion
    7) the right of the individual citizen to accurate information from their elected representatives and all those serving in bureaucratic capacities
    8) the right of the citizens en masse to demand and receive audits regarding election results and to be able to ignore all subsequent government rule until the audit results have been completed.

    ... and more when I have the time to think about them.
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    • Posted by Bopalla 2 years, 7 months ago
      1) / 2) i.e. it's the government that's standing in the way?
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      • Posted by $ blarman 2 years, 7 months ago
        Rights can't be abridged by private entities any more than they can by government ones. It's just that usually government is the biggest culprit.
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        • Posted by Bopalla 2 years, 7 months ago
          Private entities have freedom of association?
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          • Posted by $ blarman 2 years, 7 months ago
            How did the private entity form in the first place?

            Now can one's association with one group affect one's association with another? Certainly. But that does not give any single association the right to dictate terms of any other association. They can only set up rules of association for their own.

            There is even less voluntarism in association with a government than with a private entity, thus government's explicit injunction written in the First Amendment. (It should also be noted that any infringements on private right of association would have to be enacted via laws subject to viability under the First Amendment and the First Amendment specifically enjoins government infringement.)
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            • Posted by Bopalla 2 years, 7 months ago
              Does one individual/private entity have the right to choose not to associate with another individual/private entity? As opposed to the government as a third party, dictating the terms of associations between two or more individuals/private entities.
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