RE: The Difference(s) Between Freedom, Rights, and Entitlement

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The Difference(s) Between Freedom, Rights, and Entitlement

in palnet •  5 years ago 

This comes down to definitions. Originally rights (known as liberties) are defined in the negative, meaning they are to defend you from what others may do to your liberty, person and your property. They are not a claim to be made on other people’s freedoms, labor, or property (positive rights).
The founders of the United States of America created a radical idea called Liberty. It dictates that every individual has innate inalienable rights and this was embedded within the U.S constitution. These rights were proclaimed to be self-evident, in other words, they were clearly obvious to the people at the time but seem to have been lost by the masses in the quagmire of present-day identity politics. These rights are not determined by the people but endowed to them by their creator. Governments are instituted among men for one purpose according to the Declaration of Independence, which is NOT to protect people, however, to protect their individual human rights. If the government abuses it’s powers and becomes tyrannical, it is the duty of the people to overthrow the government.
Human rights have recently become an arbitrary list of demands you can keep adding to in order to get what you want from society. It would be great if we all had these things and treated each other with politeness and mutual respect, however, liberty is objective and does not work within the confines of our imagination, nor does it include positive rights unless you change its definition.
Liberty is aptly defined by Thomas Jefferson as "Unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual." - Thomas Jefferson.
You are not entitled to the product of someone’s labor (i.e education or healthcare) nor can you violate someone’s freedom in order to ensure a level of safety that you deem to be appropriate.

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