• @[email protected]
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    210 months ago

    Ok, prosecute all eight billion of us for the murder of the seventy million that died last year, see how that works out for you.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        Positive Vs. Negative rights, we’ve been talking about it this entire time. Saying “You can’t murder him” is different from “You can’t let him die”

            • Flying SquidOP
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              410 months ago

              Are you seriously asking why the UN is unable to defy biological and medical science?

              • @[email protected]
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                210 months ago

                Yes

                (but only rhetorically, I’m actually asking why you belive that some hypothetical future institution will be able to)

                • Flying SquidOP
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                  310 months ago

                  I don’t?

                  You seem to think that ‘right to life’ means ‘right to defy entropy.’ It doesn’t.

                  I guess freedom speech isn’t a right because people in comas don’t have that ability?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    210 months ago

                    The right to free speech is a negative right, in that nobody is forced to do anything to give it you.

                    What a UBI is asking for is the equivalent to the right to life as giving everybody a printing press is the freedom of speech.

                    Not necessarily a bad idea, but a very expensive one that maybe ought to wait until the planet isn’t dying.