Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ...
by robertlagrant on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:17PM
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No, because children don't have a right to work.
Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ...
by ardy42 on Monday May 11, 2020 @11:41PM
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> No, because children don't have a right to work.
I'm not sure what point that's meant to make, but it supports what I was saying. You'd never be able to derive that exception from:
>>> Well, the UN definition of "Human Rights" includes the "right to work"[1].
There's loads of different competing rights, exceptions to those rights, and other social practices that need to be weighed to make a judgement a situation like this. Focusing too closely on reasoning about this one "right to work" ignores all that, and thus leads to less than enlightening conclusions.
This nicely illustrates the folly of trying to reason about a situation from a pithy statement of some cherry-picked "right." Are we violating the "right to work"[1] of young children when we forbid them from quitting school getting a a factory job? Maybe, but it's pretty obvious that overriding factors are more important in that case. It's the same when we consider an employer who wants to "to work" employing his employees in conditions that some may consider unsafe.