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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"It's too expensive and too hard" are not good reasons to reject a right

[–] thantik@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Absolutely it is. Because our "rights" are just invented bullshit brought about by the society we've created. You don't have the right for me not to murder you in the lawless nothingness of nature. Therefore, if it's difficult as a society to supply it -- we can, AND DO, reject things as human rights.

As it is, clean water is not a human right. Housing is not a human right. You WANT it to be, but your feelings here obviously don't have a speck of reality within them.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What kind of backwards arsed ayn rand bullshit is this.

You do realise society actually only came into existence in and of itself via a loose collective agreement of behaviours, yes? These behaviours were not determined by whether or not they fit into a too hard basket, but whether or not they ensured the social strucuture remained intact for the good of the collective. Those eventually became codes of laws, and now relatively recently the conceept of human rights.

No shit housing was never ranked a right or even on the radar until recently, it wasn't an issue that affected enough of the population that it started to threaten social cohesion. It is now.

You're acting like lawless nature should dictate our actions when the sole fuckin' reason we're the dominant species is our ability and innate nature that works outside these parameters. It's laughable