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Re:The gift of it's your problem now by joshuamorton on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:38PM (#29744953)
"The law of supply and demand" isn't a right.

> You can (and people do) invent and define rights all the time.[...] That doesn't make them rights

Huh?

Re:The gift of it's your problem now by WalterBright on Friday December 31, 2021 @01:30PM (#29750957)
"The law of supply and demand" isn't a right.

I didn't say it was. Neither did I say that pi=3 is a right. Please read what I wrote again.

Re:The gift of it's your problem now by joshuamorton on Friday December 31, 2021 @04:38PM (#29752785)
Yes, I and others have asked you to list out what the natural rights are, and you've waxed about free markets. I have no idea what you're trying to say, since you seem to be contradicting yourself. Hence my request for clarification. You're doing such a bad job of communicating here that the only reason I don't think I'm being trolled is that I know you wouldn't do that.

My best guess is that you're trying to make the point that market economies are natural and that the rights we have under them are therefore natural, but this is basically an argument from status quo and it goes directly against what you said elsewhere about healthcare being a right due to government regulations.

And from that you seem to be saying that healthcare is a right due to government regulation, but here you're saying that government decree doesn't make something a right. So like I said, I'm lost.