A right is not something someone gives you – it is something that no one can take away, or prevent you from pursuing.
This needs to be printed in huge pink comic sans and posted all over college campuses, coffee houses, and social media sites.
All these anti-Trumpers claiming they're oppressed and that he's going to take away their "right" to be sexually and morally deviant Welfare-dependent baby killers need to get this drilled into their peach-fuzzed moon-faced thin-skinned skulls.
I in general agree with most of the author's post, and this is an important distinction I haven't head of between positive/negative rights.
However, it shows the author's libertarian bent. In high income countries you depend on a very high level of socialism in order for the society to function. Parks, fire, police, roads, rail, transit .. these are all forms of socialism. Countries without socialism are going to be low to mid-income or developing.
The author does make a good point: the government is going to do what it wants despite what the citizens think. There is science/are publications behind this:
The author also makes it clear they don't understand how debt, war, money and taxes work. In fact, modern money is entirely dependent on war. Conquering and holding was entirely dependent on taxes. The earliest forms of human economies were credit based (NOT barter) and coins only came in when conquerors needed to pay their soldiers. They'd pay the soldiers in coin and then also have them collect taxes, which are coins.
They'd put areas in debt in order to keep them under control.
I highly recommend the book Debt: The First 5,000 Years.
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moremetalguitar ago
This needs to be printed in huge pink comic sans and posted all over college campuses, coffee houses, and social media sites.
All these anti-Trumpers claiming they're oppressed and that he's going to take away their "right" to be sexually and morally deviant Welfare-dependent baby killers need to get this drilled into their peach-fuzzed moon-faced thin-skinned skulls.
djsumdog ago
I in general agree with most of the author's post, and this is an important distinction I haven't head of between positive/negative rights.
However, it shows the author's libertarian bent. In high income countries you depend on a very high level of socialism in order for the society to function. Parks, fire, police, roads, rail, transit .. these are all forms of socialism. Countries without socialism are going to be low to mid-income or developing.
The author does make a good point: the government is going to do what it wants despite what the citizens think. There is science/are publications behind this:
http://fightthefuture.org/videos/does-voting-make-a-difference/
The author also makes it clear they don't understand how debt, war, money and taxes work. In fact, modern money is entirely dependent on war. Conquering and holding was entirely dependent on taxes. The earliest forms of human economies were credit based (NOT barter) and coins only came in when conquerors needed to pay their soldiers. They'd pay the soldiers in coin and then also have them collect taxes, which are coins.
They'd put areas in debt in order to keep them under control.
I highly recommend the book Debt: The First 5,000 Years.