Another effort to void our basic rights
SOLO HQ
by Tibor R. Machan
09/13/05
A need cannot be weighed against a right, any more than a wish or desire or urgent want can be weighed against a right. There can be no weighing involved, not between rights, nor between rights and needs, etc., although a rights holder could very well weigh whether to hang on to what he or she owns, contribute it to the person in dire need, to some cause or project, or otherwise dispose of it in light of his or her weighing of the importance of these alternative possibilities. The weighing is not of different rights or different people's rights, but of the importance or value of the goals to which one may contribute what one has the right to freely acquire...
http://tinyurl.com/a7by9
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Tibor R. Machan
09/13/05
A need cannot be weighed against a right, any more than a wish or desire or urgent want can be weighed against a right. There can be no weighing involved, not between rights, nor between rights and needs, etc., although a rights holder could very well weigh whether to hang on to what he or she owns, contribute it to the person in dire need, to some cause or project, or otherwise dispose of it in light of his or her weighing of the importance of these alternative possibilities. The weighing is not of different rights or different people's rights, but of the importance or value of the goals to which one may contribute what one has the right to freely acquire...
http://tinyurl.com/a7by9
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 14. Sep, 11:06
