Posts Tagged ‘Freedom’
“Freedom to” vs “Freedom from,” and the impossibility of self-determination
Extending from the previous is another useful rule of thumb: You have freedom to, not freedom from. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in one of the single greatest acts of destruction against the concept of freedom by a United States president, famously listed his “Four Freedoms” which he believed should be guaranteed to all people: Freedom of…
Read MoreRule of Thumb: Rights
If you want a rule of thumb to determine whether or not a proposed right is really a right, here is a simple test: If it requires anything of anyone else, requires any other person to give or do something, then it is not your right. To live is a right. To make other people…
Read MoreWhat is a Right?
(It is a perennial amusement to me to watch a person try to derive the notion of rights without reference to God.) What is a right? “Something a person should have, or should be able to do.” According to whom? “Well, you know, according to the majority.” So if a majority agree that Jews don’t…
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