"Do you support violent revolution?" You know what? I'm really tired of those who justify, or at best are silent about, the legalized execution of workers by bomb or policeman wagging their moralizing fingers about the masses using violence to defend themselves. Bugger off.
an entitlement to an economic good. a right to health care; a right to bread; a right to housing; the right to ponies that the Democratic Party is so dead-set against despite ponies being really quite affordable
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I'm not yet convinced there is that sort of hard line. I mean, "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness." Positive or negative. Right to life means you don't get to kill me, does it also mean I'm entitled to bread and health care? What about an end to a war? Pos. or neg?
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it all depends on what you mean, sure; as alluded to earlier you can stow away all kinds of positive rights in "equality" if you're motivated, and as you say, a negative right to life is very different from a positive right to life
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do we conceive of a right to, what, have the world around one not have war in it? that's a negative. if we conceive of a right to *live* in a world without war that gets stickier
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In practice, then, I believe more and more things (positive and negative) have become generally accepted as "human rights." We even have a word for someone who thinks this is bad: reactionary. +
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