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Rightful Freedom's avatar

I think some would and some wouldn't. Charitable organizations do provide lots of temporary and permanent housing for people in need.

Do you think that the government would, given a lot of power and money, really solve the problem? Government doesn't have a great track record providing housing. Government 'projects' are usually very undesirable places to live. And while the USSR probably provided housing for almost everyone, especially of you count the gulags, not many people were very happy with it.

Is there a real solution that will provide everyone in the world with a nice house? How much of your freedom and money would you be willing to give up for it? How much of my freedom would you want to take away from me to force me to help implement it?

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Christopher Cook's avatar

Here is a simple way to phrase it:

A right is anything you wish to do that does not initiate force against another.

Anything that initiates force on another is not a right.

Half the rights in the UDHR are real rights. The other half are the kinds of rights you are describing herein: something where force must initiated against one person so that another person can have his "right" satisfied.

Those are not rights. Those are instances of violence.

There will NEVER be peace in this world so long as people continue to call those "rights."

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