{"id":3035,"date":"2011-06-01T20:11:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2011-06-01T20:11:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T20:11:01","slug":"right-to-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=3035","title":{"rendered":"Right to rights!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rights, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.<\/a><\/h2>\n

Apologies to\u00a0John Godfrey Saxe<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018New\u2019 rights are being shaped and squeezed, like sausages, from so much mechanically recovered political mincemeat.\u00a0 The difference between a right and a good<\/a> is not a difficult concept.\u00a0 However, the sound ethical concepts underpinning the definition of true rights are sidelined in favour of political expediency and the generation of political power \u2013 with new rights generated and promoted, with horrendous irony, under the guise of more power for individuals.\u00a0 In literal and ethical fact, the only real rights are those which apply to property in all its forms, and from which stem all personal liberties. \u00a0Yet, and particularly among the politically educated, this fact does not prevent the rapid expansion in what are, in reality, goods at best and often little more than nonsensical, illogical restrictions on liberty.<\/p>\n

Recently I have heard many promotions of the Right to Health<\/a> (rather than to healthcare, which while also an idiotic statement, is at least a clearly demonstrable good… and to which you obviously have no \u2018right\u2019).\u00a0 Of course, we know what morally smug do-gooders mean when they invoke the Right to Health<\/a>, but it is plainly as ridiculous a concept as the Right to A Pretty Face, or for that matter the Right to Food<\/a>.\u00a0 Even if, for arguments sake, we consider Health as a good, then it is personal property;\u00a0 your Health (good or bad) belongs to you. Moreover, since you cannot sell your health, then it is an inalienable part of your Self, and encompassed under the first principle of the Right to Self-ownership<\/a> (a true, valid, property right).\u00a0 Even though you may sell or donate access to your body for scientific or other purposes your health, being an inalienable part of your self, cannot be extracted and sold as a seperate entity.<\/p>\n

In the same set of discussions, at WHO \/ UN level meetings, other \u2018rights\u2019 mentioned included the \u201cRight to the Best Start in Life<\/a>\u201d \u2013 seriously!\u00a0 Which is what exactly?\u00a0 $10 million in a trust fund, crib at the Ritz and Gucci nappies?\u00a0 Who exactly judges what is \u2018best\u2019?\u00a0 As is plain to see, any discussion of new \u2018rights\u2019 is nothing more than a hotbed of meddling, idealistic idiocy.<\/p>\n

More timely at present <\/a>due to men in wigs upholding an assinine \u2018law\u2019 made on the fly to appease men on the take, and also due to Twitter caving<\/a>, are the \u2018Right to Privacy<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018Right to Know<\/a>\u2019.\u00a0 Both of these rights pertain to knowledge, which is essentially and ultimately a good, not a right.\u00a0 In the context of news stories about corporate whores, media whores and whoring whores and the abuse of law (superinjuctions) the two rights are tightly linked.<\/p>\n

Consider a married-with-children man, lets call him Ryan Giggs<\/a>, who decides to accept the oportunity (howsoever it arises) to fuck a media whore<\/a>.\u00a0 The Mhore then directly gains, through application of her talents (use of her labour), certain knowledge about Mr Giggs preferences about which he would not wish his family to become aware.\u00a0 That knowledge has a value in our society, to newspapers and other media – these agencies believe the public has a ‘right to know’ how Mr Giggs likes his ladies to perform. \u00a0 The knowledge also has value to Mr Giggs, who presumably believes the public has no right to know, but unfortunately for him blackmail is illegal here<\/a>. \u00a0Were it not, our Mhore could approach Mr Giggs and offer to keep silent in exchange for money.\u00a0 They would enter a contract agreeable to both, and both parties would be happy.\u00a0 Mr Giggs is protected against further extortion as he has a contractual agreement on the value of the knowledge into which his Mhore has freely entered. \u00a0Should she break this and sell the knowledge to the media anyway, she could be rightly and justly punished for breach of contract (property law).\u00a0 However, blackmail is illegal primarily to protect the rich, and prevents people from rightfully exploiting their property (knowledge) as they see fit.\u00a0 In this clearly ridiculous situation, our Mhore is obliged to realise the value of her<\/em> knowledge (it is<\/em> property, she owns<\/em> it) on the market with the consequence that lawyers get rich, laws are abused and everyone finds out about it anyway.<\/p>\n

For a comprehensive explanation of the ethical basis for selling knowledge, and why blackmail is an infringement on your liberty<\/a>, see Rothbard.\u00a0 See Rothbard anyway.\u00a0 See it all.<\/a> And when you next come across a new \u2018right\u2019, you will see it being squeezed, turd-like, from the ludicrous, self-serving, logic-mincing arsehole\/machine that is global politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rights, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. Apologies to\u00a0John Godfrey Saxe \u2018New\u2019 rights are being shaped and squeezed, like sausages, from so much mechanically recovered political mincemeat.\u00a0 The difference between a right and a good is not a difficult concept.\u00a0 However, the sound ethical concepts underpinning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[580,57,1,1399,11,28,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}