camelfarmer
Active Member
I think it would be nice if we had a set of ideals to strive towards in a nice society. Somewhere for everyone to live would be on that list for me. As well as free education, healthcare, zero child malnutrition etc. Yeah I'd give up my mustang for that. I'd rather everyone had enough than I had loads.Hello; This is a good enough example of what I am asking about when I say I need a term for those trying to re-define words or terms to suit their own agenda. What is the term for this sort of thing. A 'right" has a traditional dictionary sort of definition and has been in use for a long time.
Those who want "housing" to be guaranteed by some one else , usually taxpayers, have been trying to get us use to thinking of it as a "right" just by repeatedly calling it a "right." I can see the "need" for housing. In fact housing is among the reasons I put up with unplesant job conditions during my working life. I do see that people need housing but do not see that need as being a right. I paid rent most of my life to have housing and paid cash to own my current home. I guess now I am expected to pay taxes so others can have what I worked for?
Do not get me wrong. I can see helping folks in need, but when we allow a "need' to be morphed into a "right" the dynamic changes.
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