The Right to Self Determination Is the Right to Persistence

Jan 24, 2020, 12:56 PM

All people have both the right to self-determination, if only because no others have the right to deprive them of it. The only restitution available to those whose self-determination is thwarted is a return in kind. Therefore the only solutions to conflicts of self-determination are either separation or war. And in war, it is possible for either side to lose, and in losing, lose the possibility of self-determination.

(To have a ‘right’ means ‘to be in the right’ under the natural law of reciprocity. Or it can mean that one has the right of demand of the court or state for the resolution of differences. One cannot ‘have’ a right.)