RE: LeoThread 2025-11-06 22-46
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Something that requires forcing others to provide it cannot be a human right
Because it conflicts with itself under scrutiny. It's a self-defeating moral claim
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Individuals have a right to their person and to what can be acquired without violating the same right in others
Individuals have a right to their body, speech, thoughts, daylight and darkness, their ideas and self-taught knowledge, and the air they breathe. If someone grows their own food, it belongs to them.
If something is given or taught freely, it belongs to the recipient. So far, no violation of others' rights — consistent moral harmony
But there is no right to food that must be taken from another by force merely because someone is hungry. Nor is there a right to healthcare or education when those must be provided involuntarily by another person
If demanding provision from another were a right, it would contradict the presumption of self-ownership. To claim a right to another's labor or products is to negate the right to one's own body and its fruits
If an individual cultivates food, neighbors may request aid, and others may choose to help out of compassion, but there is no moral claim to compel the transfer.
No one gains the right to seize another's bread by force, nor to enlist politicians to do so on their behalf, regardless of votes
Such claimed rights lack defined limits from the start. Which food would be owed? How much? Must it be organic?
A right to healthcare — which treatments, which practitioner, basic bandages or advanced MRIs, the best machine or last year's model? These claims become absurd upon examination
Moral principles should not be self-contradictory on matters fundamental to civilization. There cannot be a right to the product of others
Requests and appeals are permissible, but not demands or enslavement