Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home...
by coldtea on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:00AM
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>Rights used to mean human capabilities that government should not obstruct, because the government was not the source of said capability, and therefore had no authority to control the capability.
No, that's for the government-phobic American liberals.
Rights used to mean things a person is warranted to, just because they exist.
For most European cultures for example the government = the enforcers of the will of the people (if we're talking about a democratic government, elected etc), so there's no hostility between the two (except to the degree that it doesn't enforce people's will).
That's the case for the more cohesive, ethnic-wise, countries.
For Americans it was more complicated, because it was established as a hodgepodge of peoples (as opposed to a single people) with different ideas, ethnic backgrounds, histories, etc. So no single government could cover those all, and any government was viewed with mistrust.
No, that's for the government-phobic American liberals.
Rights used to mean things a person is warranted to, just because they exist.
For most European cultures for example the government = the enforcers of the will of the people (if we're talking about a democratic government, elected etc), so there's no hostility between the two (except to the degree that it doesn't enforce people's will).
That's the case for the more cohesive, ethnic-wise, countries.
For Americans it was more complicated, because it was established as a hodgepodge of peoples (as opposed to a single people) with different ideas, ethnic backgrounds, histories, etc. So no single government could cover those all, and any government was viewed with mistrust.