Re:To solve affordability crisis, Bay Area housing stock mus...
by asimpletune on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @10:24PM
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Sorry, I didn't mean to say "right" as in the kind manufactured by humans. I just meant that two people can not be in the same place at once. It's a right in a very literal sense, I.e. it's "right".
Re:To solve affordability crisis, Bay Area housing stock mus...
by davidw on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:06AM
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If only we had the technology to place one dwelling unit on top of another one.
Re:To solve affordability crisis, Bay Area housing stock mus...
by humanrebar on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:01PM
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I agree with you about housing but natural rights exist regardless of legal recognition. Rape, murder, genocide, and slavery are all wrong regardless what a bunch of people agree about. That's what natural rights are. They are things that can be violated by an all powerful dictator. But the dictator would be wrong and terrible for doing so.
That being said, I'm hard pressed to call desired housing density a natural right.
Re:To solve affordability crisis, Bay Area housing stock mus...
by davidw on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:08AM
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You're correct: the most important right, if you follow NIMBY conversations, is the god-given right to a free parking spot for your dockless automobile wherever you may happen to go with it.
And if we recognized "physically being present before others" as a natural right, I imagine the Native Americans would have a much better situation than they do. Thinking that's a right for some but not for others is the height of hypocrisy, but that seems to be what a lot of incumbent property owners here seem to believe.