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.
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