Would help if you stopped using legal terms to argue moral ones then. Then you wouldn’t get people like him arguing with you.
He’s right, you are wrong. Full stop. Human rights is a legal term and defined in written word. Your issue is a moral not a legal one. You need to use proper terms and make yourself clear.
Blood right nationality and birth right nationality both are equally legal.
Going from one to the other is perfectly legally fine. Hell it’s even morally fine. If anything there is less problems with blood right over birth right. As birth right nationality has frequent issues with births outside of the country, and since fewer countries use birth right it causes even more.
Yes it’s all the America’s that use it, but that’s more a size of land mass not an actual population argument. By number of people, and countries blood right is the common method.
There are clear moral issues with WHY trump is doing this. And being upset at those reasons is perfectly moral. Hell I don’t like him doing this either. It’s for all the wrong reasons and being done in a fucked up way. But that doesn’t mean switching citizenship methodology is bad or wrong would also just be objectively incorrect. It can be done in a perfectly legal AND morally acceptable way.
Trump just of course doesn’t care about legal or moral thus the problems.
But humans rights it is not. Stop using a legal term that only quasi is connected to your words. It undermines your own stance. It only makes it hard to actually take you serious. It just makes you come across as trying to cause a panic instead of actually taking a stance.
The concept of human rights and the morality of how those with power act towards those without has been discussed under many names for millennia. It’s been discussed under the name “human rights” long before we started using it as a legal term. Hint: where do you think the legal term came from?
Philosophy pertaining to the law is not that same thing as the law.
It’s actually in the founding documents of our country that human rights are not defined by the legal system, and that we can only specifically enumerate a subset that we find critically important.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
This makes sense because the philosophical works that were inspirational and popular amongst the founders were those of natural rights philosophers of different sorts quite concerned with human rights in general. You can see it in how the preamble is basically a summary of them.
All that aside: being shocked that someone is discussing morality when discussing human rights is naive and a cop out for a shitty opinion.
Alright, I felt bad and went back to try reading. I got to the bit where it seems you think the US only has jus soli citizenship (speaking of needing to use the right term) instead of both “by blood” and “by soil” and stopped again. Supporting both is actually quite easy. Possession of a US birth certificate makes you a citizen. Either parent being a citizen makes you a citizen. More problems arise from “by blood” citizenship, since you need to present the child and proof of parental citizenship before someone with authority to decide if the credentials are valid. A US citizen born abroad results in quite the bundle of paperwork as well as in-person consulate visits. Being born in a US hospital it’s a short form where a hospital official affirms where they were born. The rest is just vital records for statistics.
Would help if you stopped using legal terms to argue moral ones then. Then you wouldn’t get people like him arguing with you.
He’s right, you are wrong. Full stop. Human rights is a legal term and defined in written word. Your issue is a moral not a legal one. You need to use proper terms and make yourself clear.
Blood right nationality and birth right nationality both are equally legal.
Going from one to the other is perfectly legally fine. Hell it’s even morally fine. If anything there is less problems with blood right over birth right. As birth right nationality has frequent issues with births outside of the country, and since fewer countries use birth right it causes even more.
Yes it’s all the America’s that use it, but that’s more a size of land mass not an actual population argument. By number of people, and countries blood right is the common method.
There are clear moral issues with WHY trump is doing this. And being upset at those reasons is perfectly moral. Hell I don’t like him doing this either. It’s for all the wrong reasons and being done in a fucked up way. But that doesn’t mean switching citizenship methodology is bad or wrong would also just be objectively incorrect. It can be done in a perfectly legal AND morally acceptable way.
Trump just of course doesn’t care about legal or moral thus the problems.
But humans rights it is not. Stop using a legal term that only quasi is connected to your words. It undermines your own stance. It only makes it hard to actually take you serious. It just makes you come across as trying to cause a panic instead of actually taking a stance.
Citation needed. That’s seriously such a preposterous stance that I actually skipped reading your entire response after I got to it.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human/
The concept of human rights and the morality of how those with power act towards those without has been discussed under many names for millennia. It’s been discussed under the name “human rights” long before we started using it as a legal term. Hint: where do you think the legal term came from?
Philosophy pertaining to the law is not that same thing as the law.
It’s actually in the founding documents of our country that human rights are not defined by the legal system, and that we can only specifically enumerate a subset that we find critically important.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
This makes sense because the philosophical works that were inspirational and popular amongst the founders were those of natural rights philosophers of different sorts quite concerned with human rights in general. You can see it in how the preamble is basically a summary of them.
All that aside: being shocked that someone is discussing morality when discussing human rights is naive and a cop out for a shitty opinion.
Alright, I felt bad and went back to try reading. I got to the bit where it seems you think the US only has jus soli citizenship (speaking of needing to use the right term) instead of both “by blood” and “by soil” and stopped again. Supporting both is actually quite easy. Possession of a US birth certificate makes you a citizen. Either parent being a citizen makes you a citizen. More problems arise from “by blood” citizenship, since you need to present the child and proof of parental citizenship before someone with authority to decide if the credentials are valid. A US citizen born abroad results in quite the bundle of paperwork as well as in-person consulate visits. Being born in a US hospital it’s a short form where a hospital official affirms where they were born. The rest is just vital records for statistics.