tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2364362406345742956.post533109950309548456..comments2023-10-23T09:23:05.584-05:00Comments on Live Oaks: Complexity WorshipBrian Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06604845862020723068noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2364362406345742956.post-89242156846048591462010-01-14T10:45:36.220-06:002010-01-14T10:45:36.220-06:00These invented "rights" have created a c...These invented "rights" have created a civil war, in which each group is fighting to rape and pillage one another. As you say, this will rip us apart.Brian Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06604845862020723068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2364362406345742956.post-90868582060953379432010-01-14T10:32:25.312-06:002010-01-14T10:32:25.312-06:00Brian,
Strong as always.
I also have come arou...Brian, <br /><br />Strong as always. <br /><br />I also have come around to thinking that creating group rights inherently creates complexity, whether they be "minority" rights, gay rights, women's rights, disabled rights, or rights of the elderly. <br /><br />In turn this complexity aids at an intellectual level justification of the expansion of the state, both in terms of reaching into your wallet to "correct wrongs" via redistribution, and to create an administrative apparatus to oversee the "righting of those wrongs". <br /><br />Going further, creation of such group rights often helps to abet a sense of entitlement once the group has won official recognition. For example, recently as I was following the health care debate, I became aware of an organization called the <a href="http://www.medicarerights.org/" rel="nofollow">Medicare Rights Center</a>. I didn't know that Medicare was a "right", but according to this group health care a basic human right, ergo in rhetoric they are stating that the Medicare program is not a government welfare program, but that there is a "right" to Medicare. It seems that this group overlooks that the state is pointing a gun at its citizens and commanding them to pay for this "right". <br /><br />Once you have a horde of different groups fighting over who gets gets what in terms of those entitlements, you have created the recipe for a society to rip itself apart.Neal Meyerhttp://www.themightywizard.com/weblog/index.htmlnoreply@blogger.com