Rob Roy
Well-Known Member
No... If I have a right to sex, then someone has a duty to provide it for me.
See... When it just comes to my rights to speech, religion, to own a gun, own property and things like this no one has to do anything. My rights to these things only require no one act to deprive me of this.
When I have a right to food, someone has to produce it, then surrender it to me for me to eat. Or someone has to earn money, and buy the food from someone who owns it to provide it to me.
This difference is known as positive and negative rights. Negative rights are a zero sum gain. Everyone can have freedom of speech. But with scarce resources like food, it is a right that if I had it would require someone take positive steps to fulfill. You can't have this right with out infringing on someone else's rights to their labors, property, or earnings.
This post is on point and is the crux of the argument. I declare ThickStemz the winner.