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My biggest issue with ANY statement that ends in "...is a human right" is that it's always someone else who has to provide this right. Food doesn't just appear; someone has to grow, harvest, package, ship, and prepare the food. Energy doesn't just appear; someone has to build the plants, harvest raw resources, build and maintain distro networks, and generate the energy. Healthcare doesn't just appear; people have to complete six plus years of complex and difficult schooling and practice, often taking on massive loans, to even BEGIN to practice medicine.
So on and so forth.
All these things are human privileges that people today just don't appreciate the fucking magnitude of. I'm all for increasing the standard of living for everyone so that everyone has access to these privileges (rising tide raises all ships and all that), but fuck declaring something tangible and requiring human labor a right ; that's some self-aggrandizing, sin of Pride-style bullshit. The only rights we have are the natural rights; the right to struggle and fight for resources, safety, security, and happiness. Everything else is a nicety we've invented; a luxury many don't appreciate nor work to defend.
Amen!