Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
What is also interesting that you (PVC) just commented that a Bill of Rights is the removal of liberties and "repackaged" as state-granted privilages. That is just simply nonsense, as they are actually "state-protected liberties" not "state-granted privilages". Your comment is just pure political rhetoric where you are trying to make a point where it doesn't actually exist.
There's a famous quote we use in EB's loading screens, from Plutarch irrc. When faced with captivity or death at the hands of Julius Caesar one Gallic Chieften, after the utter political and military subjugation of his people declared, "I am a free man in a free state".

The point?

It is for you to say you are free, not for someone to tell you it is so.

If the state protects some freedoms then, in practicality, it restricts others. So those freedoms you have under a Bill of Rights are those that the state grants, not those you choose for yourself. That makes them privilages granted by the state, not freedoms.

A true freedom can never be legitimately restricted.