Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home...
by dragonwriter on Friday January 31, 2020 @10:22AM
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> People conflate these rights with human rights
No, they are human rights, or, at least, they are in their framers view an articulation of a subset of such rights essential to call out in a particular context.
> but they are in place to prevent the government from unduly interfering with your inalienable rights of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
No, they are essential components of Liberty in the context of the existence of government.
> which the Declaration of Independence says have been given to all humans by their creator, and which governments are created to protect.
Governments, more often than not, are not created for the purpose or protecting the particular vision of natural rights held in mind by the authors of the Declaration of Independence (in fact I would go so far as to say that since visions of natural rights are at least as varied as the people that believe in natural rights as a valid concept, and that even those individuals have their concepts shift over time, the only government that might ever have been formed for that purpose would be one formed at the exact time of the DoI by the same people.)
No, they are human rights, or, at least, they are in their framers view an articulation of a subset of such rights essential to call out in a particular context.
> but they are in place to prevent the government from unduly interfering with your inalienable rights of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
No, they are essential components of Liberty in the context of the existence of government.
> which the Declaration of Independence says have been given to all humans by their creator, and which governments are created to protect.
Governments, more often than not, are not created for the purpose or protecting the particular vision of natural rights held in mind by the authors of the Declaration of Independence (in fact I would go so far as to say that since visions of natural rights are at least as varied as the people that believe in natural rights as a valid concept, and that even those individuals have their concepts shift over time, the only government that might ever have been formed for that purpose would be one formed at the exact time of the DoI by the same people.)