Subject: Ookay...
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Posted on: 2022-08-25 21:25:36 UTC

*I am saying that I believe everyone who's born into this world though no choice of their own (and sometimes no choice of their mother's, either) deserves quality health care, fact-based education, unrestricted access to information, safe housing, safe drinking water, food security, a planet to live on that isn't being rapidly driven to ecological crisis by unregulated industry pouring carbon and other waste into the environment, and other such universal human rights.

I'm also saying I believe the only way to ensure that every person in every state gets equal access to those things is for them to be provided by the federal government, i.e. socialism.*

I disagree. While all those things would be absolutely wonderful in theory, and in a perfect world—we don’t live in one.

First of all, I don’t classify those as human rights. While they are all good things all people should have, they are not human rights in my book for one reason—human rights are things that you can do, that stop you from doing—having a religion of your choice, saying what you want—but the rights you mentioned are different. You mentioned things that you get from someone else which I don’t believe are rights, because they force someone else to do something for your benefit.

Generally, I find that the government always ends up producing less-effective alternatives to the free market. I believe that emphasizing charities is a better way to bring those things to people.

And the phrase “ born into this world though no choice of their own“ is redundant—who does that not apply to?

—Ls

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