Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home...
by coldtea on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:08AM
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Nobody has anything "inherently".
A bare human in nature is barely human even - he/she has no language, no family, no nation, no history, no culture, etc. Same for his rights. There's no freedom guaranteed to him by nature - anybody can enslave him. There's also no right to life or property: anybody can kill him, get his valuables, etc.
Rights are what we declare/determine that our collective organization (i.e. a government in modern terms) must help establish, secure, and guard.
"Natural rights" is a way to say "We believe that the government should protect and secure this and that "right", and that it is the obvious and natural thing to do".
Otherwise "natural rights" means nothing, it's an empty wish, and has no basis without anyone to enforce it.
People do have natural gravity. The have mass, weight etc, just because they exist in nature as people. Nobody can take that away from them.
But they don't have "natural rights" given by any kind of nature, those are things that somebody must establish and enforce for them (including themselves, either because they are stronger than anybody else, or because they group together and enforce them for one another).
A bare human in nature is barely human even - he/she has no language, no family, no nation, no history, no culture, etc. Same for his rights. There's no freedom guaranteed to him by nature - anybody can enslave him. There's also no right to life or property: anybody can kill him, get his valuables, etc.
Rights are what we declare/determine that our collective organization (i.e. a government in modern terms) must help establish, secure, and guard.
"Natural rights" is a way to say "We believe that the government should protect and secure this and that "right", and that it is the obvious and natural thing to do".
Otherwise "natural rights" means nothing, it's an empty wish, and has no basis without anyone to enforce it.
People do have natural gravity. The have mass, weight etc, just because they exist in nature as people. Nobody can take that away from them.
But they don't have "natural rights" given by any kind of nature, those are things that somebody must establish and enforce for them (including themselves, either because they are stronger than anybody else, or because they group together and enforce them for one another).