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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
ranma-official

How Rights Work

reasonandempathy

A common talking point that comes up in the healthcare debate is that having a right to healthcare is a right to the labor of another person.  That you can compel a healthcare professional (shorthanded to “doctor”) to act without compensation for their labor.

This is fundamentally wrong.  Rights can only compel inaction, not action.

To draw a parallel: you have the right to a gun (second amendment, yay).  Does that mean that you are owed a gun?  That gun manufacturers must make you a rifle?  No.  It doesn’t.  It’s a laughable claim to make and it stands contrary to hundreds of years of American history.  Having a right doesn’t compel others to action, at best it compels them to inaction.

The right to not be assaulted means you don’t get to punch me.

The right to self-defense means you don’t get to jail me for protecting myself.

The right to control my labor means you don’t get to enslave me.

The right to have kids means you don’t get to force me to have an abortion.

State’s rights compel the inaction of the federal government.

The state of a country to its internal politics compels the inaction of its neighbors from interfering with its domestic politics.

The right to a lawyer doesn’t compel people with law degrees to give you free legal representation.


Anyone trying to represent a right as the ability to force action is either a fool or a liar.

mutant-aesthetic

The right to free association means you can’t force my business to- OH WAIT LOL

ranma-official

the right to tell your free association meme to fuck off means you can’t discriminate against an entire race

bariumsulfateacetone

Except that the right to a lawyer DOES compel the state to provide you a public defender if you can’t afford your own. That’s been the accepted interpretation for centuries.

ranma-official

it compels the state to provide you with a lawyer but not to force this specific lawyer to defend you for free

mitigatedchaos

Why, that almost sounds like the state hiring doctors, who can leave the profession or emigrate, to perform medical services.

Unfortunately the actual reason there is such confusion is that rights theory is false, but under Consequentialism it’s quite acceptable for the state to procure healthcare for citizens if it does a good enough job at it. Man, it would be so nice to save 5% of the GDP.

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argumate

the discourse around this Testosterone Rex book has been deeply irritating in its stupidity; I mean how many hours must be lost to arguing over whether it’s even theoretically possible for a man to sire more than one child a year.

perhaps we’ll look back on this as the high watermark for sex-does-not-exist smugness.

mitigatedchaos

You clearly haven’t heard of my plan to use surrogates to have three dozen genetic children simultaneously. Other people, well… they just lack ambition.

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the-grey-tribe
mitigatedchaos

left-wing political word filters

New Alt-Right Browser Extension Replaces “Liberal” With “Cuck”
How America’s New Nazis Wrap Themselves in Layers of Right-Wing Delusion  

But hey, what if we made one that removed all the Fnords?

the-grey-tribe

You run into the scunthorpe problem with commies complaining about neoCUCKism, which is meant as an insult against centrists, not lefties. Apply honey CUCKly to the glazed ham! Breitbart complains about the ilCUCK left in social justice.

mitigatedchaos

> implying they’d have a problem with this

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lejacquelope
“How is fascism going to survive past 2040 when whites are literally no longer even the majority and the GOP has lost the majority vote in every demographic outside of white voters? Fascists can juke and dance all they want but if they can’t get the...
mitigatedchaos

How is fascism going to survive past 2040 when whites are literally no longer even the majority and the GOP has lost the majority vote in every demographic outside of white voters?
Fascists can juke and dance all they want but if they can’t get the majority vote of POCs and women I’m not seeing a long-term future for them. Those numbers make for a very high and deep wall.

The definition of White has expanded in previous eras.  Trump’s goal of reducing immigration will help slow the rate of demographic transition, which will help the right-wing since many immigrants often slowly become more anti-immigration over time.

There are two other options, which can potentially be pursued simultaneously.

  • Expand the definition of White again, possibly to include Asians, particularly East Asians, but others would be necessary to meet the population goals.  This depends on the SJ Left backstabbing them, but that process has already begun over race and academics, much like the SJ Left has started to value cis gay men less.  Expanding the definition of “White” is what prevented some demographic flip last time.
  • Separatism.  We’re already seeing some inklings of this on the Left.

(tagging @sighinastorm since you reblogged the previous one.)

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bambamramfan
mitigatedchaos

I’m not sure whether we’ll see an increase in it under the Trump Administration.

Nationalism and Social Centrism are both more defensible than Bush and Obama-era American Conservatism, which is part of why we’re seeing them rise, although they’re not calling it Social Centrism yet.  A less jingoistic Nationalism is also a better counter to the Globalism popular among the Left, more capable of exploiting the holes in modern Multiculturalism that have been made vulnerable by the increased stress on the system, but it seemed that for a long time the Jingoism was all we got.

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