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	<title>Comments on: The Perils of Positive Rights</title>
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		<title>By: Beth</title>
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		<dc:creator>Beth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mars,
You say, &quot;You have the right to use clean and efficient public transport yet...&quot;

No. No one has a right to use clean and efficient public transport. One has a right to seek transport, but no one has a right to demand what they seek is up to their standards! If you don&#039;t like it, don&#039;t use it. You are not obligated or entilteld to use it.

To answer the second part, &quot;where will you get it from without the state enforcing welfare rights upon individuals?&quot;
Irony here, but public transportation in it&#039;s run down,dirty, and badly kept subways...in such poor condition.&quot; is from welfare. The welfare state has done a terrible job. Why do you praise it?

Privately run enterprises, when allowed no government interference or favors, competing in a free market, will produce clean and efficient products that please the public. Government welfare goods and services are always worse and substandard.

What justification do you have to violate rights to give rights to others? The fact that one has to forcibly violate negative rights in order to attain positive rights shows it is corrupt and immoral.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mars,<br />
You say, &#8220;You have the right to use clean and efficient public transport yet&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>No. No one has a right to use clean and efficient public transport. One has a right to seek transport, but no one has a right to demand what they seek is up to their standards! If you don&#8217;t like it, don&#8217;t use it. You are not obligated or entilteld to use it.</p>
<p>To answer the second part, &#8220;where will you get it from without the state enforcing welfare rights upon individuals?&#8221;<br />
Irony here, but public transportation in it&#8217;s run down,dirty, and badly kept subways&#8230;in such poor condition.&#8221; is from welfare. The welfare state has done a terrible job. Why do you praise it?</p>
<p>Privately run enterprises, when allowed no government interference or favors, competing in a free market, will produce clean and efficient products that please the public. Government welfare goods and services are always worse and substandard.</p>
<p>What justification do you have to violate rights to give rights to others? The fact that one has to forcibly violate negative rights in order to attain positive rights shows it is corrupt and immoral.</p>
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		<title>By: The Proper Concept of Rights: For the Educated Idiots in the Philippines &#171; THE VINCENTON POST</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Proper Concept of Rights: For the Educated Idiots in the Philippines &#171; THE VINCENTON POST</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] This was a view of rights that wiped moral agency right out of existence. Positive rights are thus nothing more than mislabeled preferences, or values, that people want the government to satisfy or attain for them—by force”— Tibor Machan [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] This was a view of rights that wiped moral agency right out of existence. Positive rights are thus nothing more than mislabeled preferences, or values, that people want the government to satisfy or attain for them—by force”— Tibor Machan [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Of Borders, Border Crossings and Borderline Comedy: Sid Harth &#171; News, Views and Reviews: Sid Harth</title>
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		<dc:creator>Of Borders, Border Crossings and Borderline Comedy: Sid Harth &#171; News, Views and Reviews: Sid Harth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the implication: The State owns those for whom it provides — what an indictment of socialism’s “positive rights”! One cannot help wonder if he read Atlas Shrugged and chose its villains as his [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] the implication: The State owns those for whom it provides — what an indictment of socialism’s “positive rights”! One cannot help wonder if he read Atlas Shrugged and chose its villains as his [...]</p>
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		<title>By: History as Heresy: The Socialist Immolation of Reality &#124; FrontPage Magazine</title>
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		<dc:creator>History as Heresy: The Socialist Immolation of Reality &#124; FrontPage Magazine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] implication: The State owns those for whom it provides — what an indictment of socialism’s “positive rights”! One cannot help wonder if he read Atlas Shrugged and chose its villains as his [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] implication: The State owns those for whom it provides — what an indictment of socialism’s “positive rights”! One cannot help wonder if he read Atlas Shrugged and chose its villains as his [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Mars</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mars</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do you not think you should consider the fact that there are many Negative Rights which would not exist without Welfare or Positive Rights?

I am European therefore I do not fully comprehend your system and definitely do not have the experience, but I have been in the U.S. and believe that there are some basic needs that the state is not fulfilling. 
For example although I have traveled a lot, I have never seen such run down, dirty and badly kept subways. I was honestly worried for my life, the trains were in such poor condition. 
You have the right to use clean and efficient public transport yet, where will you get it from without the state enforcing welfare rights upon individuals? 
will the means fall from the sky? Will part of the community suddenly wake up on a Sunday, decide that there is no better way to spend the one day you have to rest, than to go out get dirty, exhausted and start repairing as well as up-dating the underground system? 
I personally don&#039;t think so, I will die before I see a community sacrifice their right to selfishness.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you not think you should consider the fact that there are many Negative Rights which would not exist without Welfare or Positive Rights?</p>
<p>I am European therefore I do not fully comprehend your system and definitely do not have the experience, but I have been in the U.S. and believe that there are some basic needs that the state is not fulfilling.<br />
For example although I have traveled a lot, I have never seen such run down, dirty and badly kept subways. I was honestly worried for my life, the trains were in such poor condition.<br />
You have the right to use clean and efficient public transport yet, where will you get it from without the state enforcing welfare rights upon individuals?<br />
will the means fall from the sky? Will part of the community suddenly wake up on a Sunday, decide that there is no better way to spend the one day you have to rest, than to go out get dirty, exhausted and start repairing as well as up-dating the underground system?<br />
I personally don&#8217;t think so, I will die before I see a community sacrifice their right to selfishness.</p>
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