Whenever I hear people saying they have a "right to free x service" I imagine them holding a gun to the person who has to do the work to provide them that service.
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I feel vividly aware of all implied force in whatever nice-sounding things people day should happen
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and ppl who disagree w you are imagining people starving in the streets. & both things are actually happening.
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Possibly the projection of internalised trauma experienced sometime in the past in a similar yet descriptively different situation, on to a seemingly innocuous situation in the present?
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Absolutely and there is historical precedence, I vividly remember when they held teachers at gunpoint when public schools were created along with a right to education
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I feel the same. But it's difficult to imagine any right that can be guaranteed meaningfully without labor on someone's part. Right to free elections implies someone counting the votes. Right to a fair trial implies a judge, jury, and two lawyers working to make it happen.
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Isn't there just as much force implied by claiming land or granting property rights? It amounts to a threat of force: "stay off or be moved off."
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Do you feel there is ever a scenario where claiming a right to free x is justified?