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It really is that simple.

You should have the right to be left alone, to not be raped, murdered, or stolen from (these are negative rights, or the right to an absence of something). You should have the right to peacefully trade with others without 3rd party interferance because we are a trading species & that is how we survive. But trade is value for value. No one owes you a house or a job or healthcare or some minimum rate of pay.

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Undisciplined 2y ago

Unless you believe in slavery nostr:nevent1qqs2kuj0es20gxm42z36ks3zmvmhll57hhmgjj6w732k9zsfp99fkagpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5cz4g8y

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Jeff Swann 2y ago

The sort of people who think someone owes them free stuff are generally neither honest nor consistent enough to admit they believe in slavery.

Undisciplined 2y ago

True, but I didn’t say anything about admitting it

Jeff Swann 2y ago

But someone who denies or mentally blanks out the logic behind their own beliefs won't really understand someone telling them they support slavery. It's like telling boomer churchers that self sacrifice is suicide. You might as well be saying "good is bad."

"Universal healthare/income is slavery" just sounds like "helping people is slavery" to normies. To make matters worse they have been sold a cartoon of black people in rags & chains being whipped as slavery so it's kinda like saying giving people money involves whipping black people.

Jeff Swann 2y ago

Non of that really means it shouldn't be said, I think churchers need to hear that self sacrifice in suicide & normies need to hear that "free stuff" is slavery, but it might be a good idea to unpack those things a little more.