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@tulpa @alexandra nothing that other people have to provide to you (positive rights) can be "human rights". human rights are only negative rights. the moment you have a right to something someone else provides, you have to either institutionalize slavery, or robbery to provide it.
neither health insurance, nor food, nor water are human rights. they're goods and services like any other.
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@sneak @tulpa @alexandra There is a third option: people being allowed to be nice to each other, without systems and institutions getting in the middle and leeching off the effort without giving anything else back.
And a fourth: people can learn from each other without restriction, so everybody with the means can be slightly better than self-sufficient. (We have the technology for this.)
I'm sure you can think of more alternatives to your “slavery / robbery” dichotomy.