How are civil rights and civil liberties different?

Answer 1

My answer is that you can do anything as long as it doesn't hurt anyone on a large scale. I say "on a large scale" because it is almost impossible to do anything without hurting someone else. When we drive to work we hurt people. First of all we pollute the air for people that have Asthma. We also worsen the plight of ulcer patients that get nervous in traffic and thus produce more acid in their stomachs.

We also put pets in danger. Many cats and dogs, probably in the the tens of millions, are killed by cars. The question is, does the benefit outweigh the negative effects? Yes, because without the vehicle our life expectancies would go down, and I don't have the time to go into why this would happen (might have something to do with not being able to get food into the cities in time for the masses to eat it.)

Because marijuana is the big issue right now I will discuss this. Smoke, smoke, smoke....to your hearts content. The marijuana issue is one of the biggest debates right now because people have begun to think. And where does the rabbit hole of thinking lead us to? It leads to a very normal man or women sitting at home smoking a bowl, while the drunks are downtown picking fights at the bars and killing people in car wrecks on the way home. These same people are driving up health costs by their health problems that they will inevitibly incur. Meanwhile, the pot smoker sits at home, laughing and talking with friends, too relaxed to fight and too mellow to look for his car keys.

In all my years of life I have still not seen two pot smokers fighting and also very few auto accidents. And these are usually fender benders cause pot-smokers usually drive well under the speed limit, which is more than I can say for drinkers.

I know why the government doesn't want pot-smokers. Cause it makes you think. The spectrum of truth and lies is placed before your intelligence. You are able to make decisions based on love and fairnes. But we don't want that in America. It was tried before and the system began to unravel. Where marijuana is, organized religion breaks down, and the unfairness of governments is exposed, something the Indains know about.

We don't want that in the USA.

Answer 2

No. Civil rights refer to the protection of unequal treatment or discrimination based on race, sex, age, sexual orientation, etc. Civil liberties, on the other hand, are universal freedoms given to all people by the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and subsequent decisions by the court systems. Examples of civil liberties are freedom of speech, religion, to bear arms, etc.

Answer 3

Civil liberties and civil rights are both essential to a civilized society. Now yes, there is a differences between them.

Civil liberties are your natural rights that come from your humanity. They are your individual rights for example right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, free speech ect.

When it comes to civil rights the question is how are these rights implemented into law.

Answer 4

There is no difference between civil rights and civil liberties as both are granted by government. There is a glaring difference between rights and civil rights. Rights are inherent in people and preexist governments civil rights exist because of governments. Rights can not be taken away by governments, they can only be denied or disparaged. Civil rights can be taken away by governments and there is no denial or disparagement simply revocation. Civil rights are paper rights protected by paper tigers. Rights, real rights are those rights protected by the blood, sweat and tears of true warriors. Governments will do their best to reign in the freedom of the people. How successful those governments can be, depends entirely upon the people.
Civil liberties are rights are freedoms given to the people by the First Amendment of the constitution.

Answer 5

There are many definitions given about this difference, and in many countries, laws and comments the terms are used in different ways. Wikipedia for one mentions 'freedom of speech' at the same time under 'civil rights' and under 'civil liberties'. But you could say that civil rights are general rules and freedoms that apply to any- and everybody in the same way, and that civil liberties are (often) specific rules and freedoms that apply to specific situations.

Answer 6

no