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>denial of banking service is de facto denial of the human right to own property. Is property ownership a 'human right', or a 'human privilege' (nod to George
by Ylpertnodi 2y ago
>denial of banking service is de facto denial of the human right to own property.
Is property ownership a 'human right', or a 'human privilege' (nod to George Carlin)?
- lmm 2y agoIt's literally in the UN declaration, and widely accepted as a basic right. If some philosopher thinks there is some sense in which it isn't a right, so much the worse for their philosophy.
- barry-cotter 2y agoThe UN is not a moral authority and utterances endorsed by it have no more moral weight than any other political organisation.
- anticorporate 2y agoImagine being a newcomer coming to this discussion and the two sides are "debanking is bad and hurts people" and "the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is garbage."
- barry-cotter 2y agoThat the UN General Assembly endorses a document is no more valuable a signal than BRICS, the OIC or the Arab League doing so. If you want to point to a document for its moral weight better not to point to one from an organisation that has Saudi Arabia chairing its women’s rights committee.
- nkrisc 2y agoAll rights are unnatural. Therefore “we” get to collectively agree on what rights all people ought to be granted. I believe almost anywhere you go you’ll find that most people agree to consider property ownership to be a basic right.