tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post708347143552850212..comments2023-10-20T05:51:51.625-04:00Comments on The THINK 3 INSTITUTE: The Right to Get isn't the Right to HaveSamuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-63509980616712283692009-07-28T17:59:44.095-04:002009-07-28T17:59:44.095-04:00"He seems incapable of envisioning circumstan..."He seems incapable of envisioning circumstances in which people might trade in their natural rights, so to speak, in return for guarantees that might make society less brutally competitive." This view seems very widespread, many people seem to believe that the ideal state of a capitalist society is lawlessness. In Enlightenment thought, from Locke and Hobbes to Rousseau, the acceptance of the limitation of natural right by positive law/rights is the very definition of civilization, and marks the difference between the state of nature (i.e. war of all against all, in Hobbes' famous phrase) and human society.d.erishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09186054212519025557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-21895210861113804802009-07-28T15:00:58.331-04:002009-07-28T15:00:58.331-04:00In the writer's defense, I don't think he ...In the writer's defense, I don't think he would claim a right to survive in the savannah or desert. He'd only ask that no one prevent him from doing what he has to in order to survive. The writer's problem is that he doesn't want anyone to claim a right to survive in <i>society</i>, which exists (ideally)to confer a right of survival on those willing to repudiate every-man-for-himself competition.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-27028150937566372452009-07-28T14:03:32.489-04:002009-07-28T14:03:32.489-04:00What needs to be beaten into the rock-like heads o...What needs to be beaten into the rock-like heads of these idiot conservatives is that there is no such a thing as "natural rights". Rights are granted, authorized, guaranteed and protected by the government. If you take one of these morons and put them out on the savannah of Africa, who guarantees them a right to not be eaten by a lion? If you put him in the middle of a desert, who grants him a right to not die of thirst? If you put him down in Antarctica, who is going to defend his right to not be frozen to death? These retards need to understand they have NO rights except those granted by the government. If the government decides to grant a right to healthcare, then so be it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com