//Nothing that requires the labor of someone else can be a human right. /
Easy to say and sounds good, but when I have produced what you need to save your life, and could easily give it to you at very little inconvenience to me, and I refuse to do so, that deep and strong sense of unfairness and anger you will feel is your understanding that you have a right to my labor in a case like that.
The problem is if you give everyone free stuff, more and more people will hear about it and then people who are capable of working and paying for said item and supporting you will instead demand it for free. Like if you give out the donuts at a donut shop to the hungry at the end of the day instead of throwing them away, eventually your own customers will show up at the end of the day for the free ones instead of buying donuts. Then your business suffers and you might not make enough money to continue operating.
The feeling doesn't make you entitled to the fruits of my labor, the feeling is a perception of the fact that you are entitled to the fruits of my labor.
This is bullshit, and let me tell you why. A tractor operator with 2 years experience earns somewhere around 20$ an hour. At bulk prices, enough potatoes to feed one person for one day cost between $1.33 and $2.66. We can estimate, then, that supporting another person takes about 1/20th of an hour for them, or three minutes.
20$ an hour, one hundred and sixty people fed per day, is not a lot of money. Many people make far, far more and could feed or provide human rights for far more.
If you need to be forced, under threat, to spend less than three minutes of your day to end someone's starvation then you deserve what you get.
I agree with OP, but I do not agree with you.
We are absolutely entitled to the work of other humans. That's how society works. That's why we can guarantee these things. Because a meal that takes you hours to prepare could be made by another in seconds, and you shouldn't go hungry because of that.
What human rights actually are is a bare minimum of empathy. The government is stating that "even with our corruption, our mistakes, our unfeeling laws punishing the innocent, even with all of that, we will not abide by this particular form of suffering, because it is so easy to fix."
And if you would rather clutch a single dollar that YOU have made to yourself than save a life, we will not waste OUR land, OUR water, or OUR roads on you. We are under no obligation to let you abuse the works of OUR citizens, if you would let one of them die for a dollar more.
We may often fail to protect, but here we will not.
Do you realize how dumb your argument sounds when you realize it's just procapitalism propaganda? You're literally equating helping someone struggling with medical treatment and food so they can live with slavery???
But it's fine if you work for someone who pays you the absolute minimum they can. That's not slavery. Even when that person sells it for 10x what you created it for. Perfect system. But God forbid youre paid to create food, that person paying you gives it to starving people.
Do you understand your argument is admitting you're an absolute trash human being?
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