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>How can a product of someone else's labour can be a human right? Quite easily. Access to clean water isn't free, nor is safety or freedom (of religion, to own
by literallycancer 10y ago
>How can a product of someone else's labour can be a human right?
Quite easily. Access to clean water isn't free, nor is safety or freedom (of religion, to own property, whatever). Enough people agree that these are a human right, so they are financed by the collective, regardless of how much the recipient contributed by paying taxes.
- battlebot 10y agoPaying taxes into a government system is different than saying something is a "human right." I think the idea that goods and services of any kind are a human right are a slippery slope. You can't just declare a right to the output of someone else's labors. It may feel good to do so, but it is unethical.