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Since when was it a human right to tell other people where they're allowed to live?
by logicchains 7y ago
Since when was it a human right to tell other people where they're allowed to live?
- i_am_nomad 7y agoGood question. I’ll be moving in to your house this evening, thanks.
- logicchains 7y agoThe illegal immigrants aren't staying in your home, they're staying with whomever they're paying rent to. What right do you have to tell him who he can rent to?
- i_am_nomad 7y agoGood question. If he also decides not to rent to black people, certainly, that’s his business, and I have no right to tell him who to rent to. Correct?
- logicchains 7y agoIf you're asking me personally, then yes it's none of your business what he's doing with his property. If he's not renting to black people, that means more tenants for people who aren't racist to rent to. But that aside, housing discrimination laws are based on the moral principle that people should not be treated worse based on their skin colour. Upon what moral principle is the notion that people should be treated worse based on their place of birth based?
- riversflow 7y agoTreat your neighbor like your brother? Nationalism and before that tribalism are as old as our species.
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- golergka 7y agoSince property, both private and public, is a fundamental human right. Just as you have a right to privacy of your home, a country's citizens have the same right to their country.
- logicchains 7y ago>Since property, both private and public, is a fundamental human right. If property is a fundamental right, then shouldn't it be the right of a landlord to rent his property to whomever he wants?
- golergka 7y agoOf course it should. But the landlord's private property is still a part of the country citizen's collective property.
- logicchains 7y agoHumans (and presumably human rights, if assuming they're fundamental) existed before countries. So how does a concept that came later (a country) suddenly trump something that's fundamental? What is the moral mechanism by which a group of people declare a certain area a country and suddenly gain property rights over everything within that area?
- golergka 7y agoHuman rights, just as countries, are a human invention. These inventions are extremely useful, because they allow some rules for conflict resolution — without them, it's just rule of power and violence.