The Atlantic Tells Us About “Good” and “Bad” Liberty
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I'm not defending anything. I'm simply pointing out how those terms are used. Negative rights forbid the government from taking certain actions, and positive rights mandate the government take certain actions. You're still assigning normative values to positive and negative and they're purely descriptive terms in this context. We're talking about definitions, not value judgements. Those terms don't mean good/bad any more than protons have "good" charges and electrons have "bad" charges because we use the terms positive and negative to describe electrical charge. The terminology is shitty because it confuses rather than clarifies but it's not being used in the way you think it is.
I’m well aware of how the verbiage is being used, the problem is the same as ac vs dc. Positive and negative in any sense should always be implied as their natural function. The inability to do so is human error. This does not stop the need to properly categorize things as they impact the objects we describe.
But it is used correctly.
Negative : the Government can't do this.
Positive : the Government is obliged to do this.
Absence vs presence of Government Action. Stop nitpicking against the poster, the terms are neutral and correct and used by about everyone with a functioning level of understanding of politics.
Its not used correctly, again this method of thought is completely irrational. To ascribe status you must attribute correctly. This labeling has one intent, to make government seem good and citizens bad.
So as someone else said, you're mad about negative HIV tests.
The use is correct. You're the one equating positive with good and negative with bad. Negative is absence, positive is presence also. Presence can be bad. Such as with HIV or Government intervention.
This isn't a hard concept, stop doubling down on being stupid.
Obviously not if you're still opening that cock-hole on your face.