Thread: Universal Default Rights A Bad Design

This blog has long covered the major problem of social reality, which is where people band together and create a consensual reality-image in order to protect themselves from anything they don’t want to do. This very negative thinking at its core is defensive, and knows what it hates but not what it loves.

It also makes us easy to manipulate: tell us that something is “not-free” and we are “free,” and we’re automatically against it, banded together into a lynch mob that doesn’t care about the details.

But “rights,” itself, as a paradigm, may be a bad design. It’s not a goal, but it is a surrogate for a goal. Instead of “do the right thing,” we have the mandate to “protect our inalienable right to do nothing we don’t want to do,” which makes us into brats who avoid doing the right thing because then we lose some of that freedom.

There’s another insidious problem which we see here:

http://www.amerika.org/2009/social-r...-a-bad-design/

Most places require drivers to be licensed before they operate motor vehicles. Is this tyranny or is it sanity? What about requiring a pilot's license before flying? Tyranny or sanity?

How about an individual who has inhereted a disordered brain like a psychopath, a bi-polar or a split-personality person: should they have the right to a marriage license? What about the right to bring offspring into the world?

Originally Posted by antihumanism

Most places require drivers to be licensed before they operate motor vehicles. Is this tyranny or is it sanity? What about requiring a pilot's license before flying? Tyranny or sanity?

Sanity, definitely.

How about an individual who has inhereted a disordered brain like a psychopath, a bi-polar or a split-personality person: should they have the right to a marriage license? What about the right to bring offspring into the world?

Yes to the first one. I dunno about the second.