LSUnKaty

Any time someone says 'let me be clear' it makes me skeptical.

Since when is giving aid and comfort to the enemy, just because you disapprove of who the American people duly elected as president, considered protecting the constitution?

Damn bro, is there anything you're not a expert in?

Are you familiar with Nassim Nicholas Taleb or Dunning and Kruger?

Your ability to look prescient in twenty word posts isn't as impressive as you think it is.

What do you call a person who knows a little bit about a lot if things but acts like they know everything about everything online?

War against the family

Hey, I like it. Trump giving the common man the same advantage as the sleezy insider politicians who do this all the time.

They should know the playbook better than anyone.

No, that wasn’t a girl’s track meet.

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targeting details on upcoming air strikes

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What evidence do we have that targeting details were contained in those texts?

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The government distributes rights in our society. In other places, a monarch may distribute those rights. Or a tribal leader.

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While I disagree, I will stipulate for purposes of discussion that this is true.

It still does not explain where the idea or features of any particular right derived from or was conceived of. How does the government know what rights to distribute and what features those rights should embody?

Or for that matter, what the notion of a right is?

Are these derived simply from the authority of the State also, by whim and fiat? If so, it would seem any discussion about rights would be useless and futile since the very conception of such depends only on the State, or in your parlance the ruling authority of a given society, and therefor ever changing over space and time and not grounded in any abstract concept that can be discussed or debated.

This point of view transforms a Right into simply a license to particular behavior, a valid concept in itself, but the notion of rights has always been something different and more fundamental than the simple authority or "ability" to do something.

Again, where do the notions of what behaviors should be sanctions by the State come from? Do they just spring from random thoughts in people's heads, or are they based on something more fundamental and persistent than that?

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society is the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community, per the dictionary.

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Hmm... So just an aggregate of people living together?

Seems like your concept of it, at least as expressed in this thread anyway, encompasses a lot more than that simple notion. The power to confer rights for instance, how/why is a simple aggregation of people living together in a community capable of originating or creating "rights" out of thin air?

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Not sure why it's so difficult for people to separate the right from the recognition of the right and the enforcement of the right.

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They can and do.

Everything else you said was spot on.