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Under your own definition, everyone can have: - housing - education - health care Unless you’re saying that somehow it’s impossible for a society like the UK o
by mjmahone17 5y ago
Under your own definition, everyone can have:
- housing
- education
- health care
Unless you’re saying that somehow it’s impossible for a society like the UK or US to ensure everyone has access to the above?
Even for your “negative rights”, we today already have conflicts. For instance, a right to trial by a jury of your peers: this clearly conflicts with the jury’s right to work. They can’t work while they’re hearing your trial. As soon as you allow “we’ll just dismiss those for whom jury duty is an undue burden”, you’re acknowledging society is big enough to handle these conflicts without creating an undue burden on anyone.
- moojd 5y agoYour right to representation and to a trial by jury are limits on government power, not positive rights. You do not have the right to a lawyer or jury whenever you want. These are the conditions required if the government wants to prosecute you. If these conditions cannot be met the government can just drop the charges against you. We've seen this happen recently during covid due to court backlogs.