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I don't understand this response. A "right" by definition is about your interactions with other people.
by jakelazaroff 1y ago
I don't understand this response. A "right" by definition is about your interactions with other people.
- WalterBright 1y agoBy definition? I don't agree. Rights are a part of human nature, endowed by the Creator (or Evolution if you prefer). For example, since slavery was legal before the Civil War, does that mean the slaves had no right to be free?
- jakelazaroff 1y agoNo right to be free from what? If you are by yourself, who is there to enslave you? It doesn't matter how how rights are endowed; the entire concept is meaningless except with regard to other humans.
- WalterBright 1y agoYou have a right to be free from somebody trying to kill you. You do not have a right to force him to do your bidding.
- jakelazaroff 1y agoBoth of those rights govern exactly what I said: your interactions with other people. But anyway, no one is proposing anyone be forced to do someone's bidding.
- WalterBright 1y ago> no one is proposing anyone be forced to do someone's bidding. The proposed right to health care does exactly that.
- jakelazaroff 1y agoThat is not correct.
- WalterBright 1y agoYou and Bob are on a desert island. You have a right to health care. How are you going to make Bob give you health care?
- jakelazaroff 1y agoYou and Bob are on a desert island, and Bob is trying to kill you. You have a right to be free of someone trying to kill you. Bob is trying to kill you. How are you going to make him stop?
- WalterBright 1y agoYou have a right to defend yourself. You do not have a right to take from others. The two are not the same at all.