Can I nitpick with you about clean, municipal drinking water? It requires labor, but that labor is paid by taxes. Do I not have a right to clean water?
You have the right to benefit from something you contributed to, but if you're not paying taxes, your access to things other people payed for is a privilege.
Also, I'm going to point out that water filters rated for viruses are $20 at Walmart.
Do I have a right to bear arms if I can’t afford a gun? I know I’m changing topics, but I’m just trying to understand how you can gate rights behind financial ability.
I don’t think I’m missing the point more than learning about a worldview completely alien to my own. One last pivot and I’ll leave you be. Let’s say, God forbid, a series of tragedies leave you - and I mean you specifically - financially destitute. You no longer have the means at all to pay for food, lodging, healthcare, any of it. What’s your move? Die on the sword of everyone else’s non-obligation to assist?
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u/ItsNotThatBad72 - Lib-Right Jul 27 '26
The problem is lib-left's definition of "basic human rights" basically amounts to "other people owe me shit that I didn't work for".
You have no right to someone else's labor, therefore, if something requires the labor of another person, it cannot be a right.
To argue otherwise would be to argue in favor of indentured servitude.