So, if say 20 armed guys storm and take your home away..of course you stop them the best you can with your 1911's and 870 shotguns. Anyway they keep your house so you go to the authorities and say 'they have no right to my property", the they say sorry...you are too weak. They keep your property. Makes sense to me!
Might makes right. If we are not a nation of laws & rights, then why should we be a world of laws & rights.
If 20 armed men stormed your house you will probably be dead already. Please enlighten me then as to how the law will make that right.
We are free to create laws to protect what rights we believe we should have. It is up to each society what laws they wish to have. At the same time those laws are only effective if enforced. Often they also can only attempt to redress a wrong, they can not stop one like in the case you mentioned above. You can go to the police about the 20 guy who stormed your home and hopefully get a satisfactory resolution but that does not change the fact that those 20 armed men stormed your home, claimed it and threw you out on the street if only for a day. You are depending on the "might" of your society and the rules it has established to make right so you can see that in this case "might does make right."
The law says New Orleans gun owners could not be detained, cuffed, and have their houses ransacked by government agents to steal their guns during a crisis but it still happened. Where are the laws that should protect these people? Why has the law to this day not rectified it. No "might" has backed up their "right" so in this case they are left on the loosing end.
If the law can help to maintain a functioning society that is good. In the end though, and everyone here should already know it, when it comes to defending your life you are on your own.
90%+ of the population will most likely act rightly based on their understanding of right and wrong. The remaining few though do not obey a law because it is right in any sense of the word. They obey it because of the "might" of the state and society that is behind it.
It is not so much that I like "Might makes Right." I more prefer to have "Right ensured by Might" Inevitably though "Right" will not be upheld without "Might" and no toothless law, defenseless person, or unprotected nation state can ignore that.