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Yes. Next question.
Do I have the right to say and think you and your children deserve to have cancer and be murdered?
Implying billionaires are as innocent as a child?
You have the right to think whatever you want. You have the right to say almost anything you want. You lose that right when those actions start hurting others.
Your's is just a dumbass response to be edgy. Go touch grass.
Rights aren't real. They're granted by the collective. Turn on the collective, and they'll turn on you. No magic system keeps your rights in place then. You can certainly choose to identify others as an enemy, treating them poorly and thinking they should die. That isn't even uncommon.
Now, do you have the infinite resources to make it happen? No. Do billionaires? Yes. That's the problem.
They’re not granted by the collective in capitalist states, though. They’re granted by the ruling class, which is the minority capitalist class. And those happen to be the same people under discussion to face the guillotine.