Why You Have No Right To Marriage, Health Care, Or An Education

[mountaineer]

Why You Have No Right To Marriage, Health Care, Or An Education
The rhetoric of rights is appealing. Label whatever you want a 'right' and you tip the scales in your favor. However appealing the tactic may be, however, is conceptually incorrect and politically dangerous.
By Anonymous
November 5, 2019

The Founding Fathers aren’t very popular in public high schools these days. Apart from a cursory and incomplete introduction to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, much of what our Framers wrote is ignored.

Every once in a while, however, a teacher or administrator might quote what she thinks is Thomas Jefferson’s rationale for public education, as if our current fixation on “college and career readiness” were what he had in mind when he wrote: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”  ...

The freedom Jefferson had in mind depends on understanding the conceptual and philosophical foundation upon which one can claim a “right” to anything. If that foundation erodes because of negligent education institutions, Jefferson expected the walls of our self-governing republic to topple.  ...

The author also discusses how school children are falsely taught just about everything is a right, and explains human nature and what the Founders actually meant by "rights."
Read the entire article at The Federalist.

[Absalom]

The notion that 'Rights' were transcendent virtues/values, was promoted by the
radicals of the French Enlightenment among them Montesquieu, Rousseau and
Voltaire; whose ideas produced the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789.
Earlier thinkers always appreciated that rights were constrained by responsibilities;
a concept that had served Mankind well for thousands of years!!!

[Wingnut]

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