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Rights are meaningful only in the nation state. They are secured from procedures arising from a people. They cannot be declared by some supranational govt.
— Dec 23, 2021 07:01AM
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Jacob Aitken
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Third chapter is on eating meat, which is odd for a book on political philosophy. To be sure, it is profound and while defending meat-eating, does call for reform in how we go about having slaughterhouses in our economies.
— Dec 26, 2021 03:05PM
Jacob Aitken
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Nations, because of their commitment to home and land, do a better job of conserving nature than supranational NGOs. Scruton proposes something like Burke's trusteeship.
— Dec 24, 2021 08:11AM
