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Human rights don’t ‘trickle down’

two hands almost touching against a sky backdrop with glowing sun between their fingers

Why must some discussions be silenced in favor of others? The commission’s name itself is peak Orwellianism. I must admit, sadly, that many rights are alienable. The Commission on Unalienable Rights has come to take them away.

When we disagree on politics and I lose a friend

16th-century painting of two friends. "Autoritratto con un amico" by Raffaello.

I have to be a good person, and even then, it’s up to someone else if they want to be my friend. They don’t owe me what I gave as a gift, and certainly they don’t owe me what I never gave at all.