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"Equality" and "Rights"

Saturday, the 23rd of January, 1999 at 6:26pm

Zeno · Comments

For what I am about to say someone somewhere is going to think that I am a Nazi. This is an unfortunate side effect of living in a world that has so many simple-minded fools.

There is no such thing as Equality

No two things in the Universe are equal, at the very least they have a different position in time and space.

There is no such thing as Rights

The universe doesn't owe you a living; in fact it doesn't owe you anything at all. You do not even have a right to life.

That said, I agree we should treat people as we would like to be treated, not because they are "equal" to us but because as a human being I have empathy for others. I personally would prefer a society in which we are nice to one another happens but that doesn't mean that such a society is better than any other is.

As for "rights" the entire idea seems to be a way of avoiding responsibility. Try replacing "I have a right to free speech" with "I have a responsibility to myself and others to ensure freedom of expression is possible". Or replace "I have a right to live" with "I have a responsibility to myself and my dependants to live". Not so catchy as a political slogan I admit but much more helpful in that it is more likely to produce positive action than the kind of sickly whining that most rights arguments tend to dissolve into.

This post was last edited on the 9th of August, 2009 at 4:48pm

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