[C]onstitutional thinking has evolved since 1787. Today, most new constitutions include far more enumerated rights than ours, notes David Law. The right to education, for instance, and to privacy, food, healthcare and housing. [More]
You know, the right to enslave and force others to provide.
I just got done talking about government “giving” rights…
Funny how that keeps ending up…
What can I say but The Los Angeles Times…?
[Via Michael G]
Some years ago, author Marko Kloos posted something that has stuck with me since.
“You cannot have a right to something that necessitates a financial obligation on someone else’s part.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20140729002533/http://munchkinwrangler.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/
Most of the NPCs I know think that it’s perfectly fine to invent a right to something that necessitates a financial obligation on EVERYONE else’s part. Because democracy.