Chile votes on constitutional referendum
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That alone should be enough to tell you the proposed Chilean constitution is a complete dumpster fire.
"Here are your fundamental rights" dumps 400 page novel on the desk
The USA: Here's your tax code citizens - 70,000 pages and a front end loader.
Yup. Legal systems that complex aren't meant to be complied with. They are intended to be broken - by everybody - so that you are beholden to the good graces of the government.
I really do wish that these people weren't so determined to prove Ayn Rand right.
To paraphrase Frederick the Great and Homer: when everything is a right, then nothing is a right. A multitude of rights is not a good thing.
Why? Because rights inevitably clash, especially when you have 178 pages of them. And when rights clash, one right has to take precedence, violating another right, which then is not really a right.
If you have both a right to free speech and to not have your feelings hurt, then you don't have free speech.
So this is perfect for the rulers, as
citizenssubjects have no rights.Or perhaps:
We have so many rights that everybody is violating somebody's rights!
Sadly, the State, being possessed of limited resources, is only able to prosecute the most egregious
oppositionoffenders.