Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure

[Bob Butler 54]

(11-05-2018, 12:45 AM)Galen Wrote: Progressives tend to define everything as a right and has no concept of the difference between positive and negative rights.  It never occurs to you that the progressive tendency to declare everything to be a human right would create a tyranny on par with the Soviet Union.

The problem with positive rights is that you have to apply coercion to get the resources for those things that you consider to be rights.  There is no limit to what progressive consider to be rights which is why progressives tend to be such a nasty bunch of totalitarians.

Which rights are you opposed to? That a child has sufficient food to eat? Free speech? You are fond of talking about generics, and avoid speaking about how you really want society to work.

I do agree that there has been too much legislation from the judicial bench including the invention of new rights, but in general it is hard to define a new right through the amendment process. The judges are never isolated from the political element.

In general there exists people with little compassion for others, who care only for themselves, and would just as soon see other people suffer. Again, so long as the huge division of wealth exists because of the suffering of others, the error is in the direction of not enough guaranteed minimums.