Maggie's Farm

Insufficiently universal human rights

"It frequently becomes clear that, in practice, human rights are not equal for all. Respect for those rights is the preliminary condition for a country’s social and economic development."

This statement is absolutely not true. Let me ask the reader a question: If I choose not to work, and then I get hungry, are you obligated to feed me? Of course not! If every bum all over the world had a claim on the wages of working people, then there wouldn't be any reason to work. That's why there are so many unemployed blacks in America. Welfare is valued at twenty five dollars an hour. And "free" Section 8 housing is worth even more.

So we can see that there is no such thing as a universal right to other people's property. Rome tried universal-income five hundred years ago, and the government collapsed. Everybody signed-up for welfare. The claim of "universal human rights" is really an assertion that a "global government" has the right to intervene in the internal affairs of each country; and to decide who gets supported. But that destroys local control, and the social mechanisms of charity which normally serve the poor. It's totalitarian. In fact, there are no universal values, and there is no such thing as a universal society. Each country works out its problems in its own way. All the so-called "Universal" organizations like World Heritage Sites, and Doctors Without Borders, are an attempt to weaken and then overthrow the governments of independent countries by claiming that communists have a "moral imperative" to protect everybody in the whole world. At taxpayer expense.