Re: Health care [was Sources of Innovation]

Posted by Robert J. Cordingley on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Sources-of-Innovation-tp4566136p4575401.html

Glen
See http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ and don't skip the bit that
says "disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous
acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind".  A right isn't a
natural consequence... but then I think you jest.
Thanks
Robert

On 2/15/10 8:32 AM, glen e. p. ropella wrote:

> Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 02/14/2010 10:49 AM:
>    
>> Rights talk is madness.
>>      
> That's the most true sentence I've seen on this mailing list. [grin]
> Nobody has a right to anything.  Some of us are lucky enough to be in
> the right social classes to take advantage of particular legal systems;
> but that's the whole extent of it.  If there are any rights at all, they
> are those provided by our biology.
>
> E.g. I have the right to be hungry when I don't eat.  I have the right
> to be euphoric when I hunt.  I have the right to pain and death in the
> freezing dawn in my cardboard shanty under the bridge.
>
> Everything else is ideology and illusion.  Luckily, there are those of
> us who are crafty enough to exploit the gullibility of those around us
> so that our rights seem more real than theirs.
>
>    

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