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The ability to earn a living is a human right that no government can deprive you of without a good, specific reason and due process.
by deathgrips 6y ago
The ability to earn a living is a human right that no government can deprive you of without a good, specific reason and due process.
- threeseed 6y agoIt is not a human right to earn a living. And it is absolutely the right of a government to prevent you from working. Many jobs requiring government approval for example a doctor, lawyer, builder.
- tathougies 6y agoGovernments do not have rights, period. They exist solely at the consent and continued pleasure of the governed (or should at least). That is to say, every human has rights, because they are an individual human. The rights of people are self-evident and stem solely from the fact that people are human. Governments have no rights. There is nothing that is owed to them due to their existence as governments. Were a particular set of people not to form a government, no other government could rightfully enter to assert their 'right' to govern.
- vadym909 6y agoI'd love to hear black or brown people adopt this as their motto.
- tathougies 6y agoSame
- mgolawala 6y agoGandhi was brown, and his policy of civil disobedience was essentially based on the premise that a government only derives its legitimacy from the will of the people to be governed by it. Leading to the act of mass civil disobedience.
- alvah 6y ago"It is not a human right to earn a living." The UNCHR has begged to differ since 1948. Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human...
- colejohnson66 6y ago> to just and favourable conditions One could argue that putting yourself or others at risk of infection is not a “just and favorable condition”
- deathgrips 6y ago>It is not a human right to earn a living. What gives you the right to decide that?
- tirant 6y agoIt shouldn't, unless your only purpose is damaging that individual, which sounds to me like a not very humane purpose. Work is one of the main purposes and goals an individual may have, together with family. Denying that to anyone is simple and plain tyranny.
- jki275 6y agoGovernments have no rights. Human beings have rights.
- greglindahl 6y agoOddly enough, in this case the local and state government does have a reason and did follow due process. A company that disagrees can sue -- more due process.
- glofish 6y agoIt all hinges on the reason and due process of course. I read an amusing analogy, we have what we call the "Schrodinger's disease". The government tries to protect me from the disease and suspects me of spreading the disease - all at the same time. Even though I don't want that protection and I am not sick. Doesnt' matter, I have to oblige.
- qotgalaxy 6y agoYes, you do. It's honestly not that complicated.
- ascorbic 6y agoHave you been tested? Every day? You can't confidently say you're not infectious when a large proportion of cases are asymptomatic, or very mild. By all means be gung-ho about your own life, but your rights stop at the point they risk other people.
- deathgrips 6y agoYou will never be able to confidently say you are not infectious of some disease.
- ascorbic 6y agoExactly. Which is why, when there is an epidemic of a dangerous disease, measures need to be implemented that assume that everybody is infectious unless proven otherwise.
- deathgrips 6y ago