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"You go out and get it yourself!" - Except those who need food frequently can't. Children, the sick, the injured. We take care of these people and have a moral
by analognoise 4y ago
"You go out and get it yourself!" - Except those who need food frequently can't. Children, the sick, the injured. We take care of these people and have a moral obligation to feed them because they have a right to food.
People absolutely have a right to food. A positive right, no less, that can't be denied.
People used to get it from "the commons" - since we've enclosed them all to shift to our current modes of...well, everything, we have to replace what people would have gotten from the commons previously and provide it free of charge, as a right to things on this earth that people would have had.
Like food. Currently what we do is burn the excess to keep the prices up. We've long since been able to make the food free; we don't and it is immoral (like a good number of our social constructs, imo).
No, no religion on my end. I just think it's obvious people have a right to food, like they have a right to clean air, water and shelter.
- PathOfEclipse 4y ago> No, no religion on my end. I am definitely not surprised. Atheists seem to be the loudest about proclaiming positive rights. And, yet, it is within atheist governments where people are least likely to experience these "rights", or even the right to life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_atheism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_atheism That is no accident. > I just think it's obvious people have a right to food, like they have a right to clean air, water and shelter. That's neat. I can't help but notice you declined to justify this belief. And that's part of the problem. Secular humanism has no foundation. Instead, it relies on the foundations Christianity built. As that erodes, so too will human flourishing in general!