We Have No Right To Water?

sorry about that,that link was ok, but it's on prison plantet's site as well.
probably my error, as this is so upsetting.
 
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good luck, i'm going out to visit the well and pray.
 
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One is not inherently entitled to water any more than one is entitled to any other natural resource like oil or food. Earn it if you want it.
 
I have no more right to water than I do to air, oil, sand, or balloons.
 
I agree that as Americans we only have a right to life, liberty and a pursuit of happiness. I was mocking the liberals who blindly subscribe to the wisdom of the UN.

But it would be pretty tough to keep water away from people as long as it keeps raining. Heck, I remember remember reading a Hardy Boys book as a kid, and they managed to get water out in the desert using a hole, a rock, a sheet of plastic and a make-shift cup.
 
How can I be garanteed the right to life, as the Declaration says, but be denied something that is needed to sustain life?
 
familydog said:
How can I be garanteed the right to life, as the Declaration says, but be denied something that is needed to sustain life?
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Very easily.

Water is a resource, not a right. Despite water's vital role in the workings of my body, I do not have a right to it. This is because I do not have a right to ownership of anything but myself.

I have a right to life because I am the sole owner of myself. I have self-ownership because I am self-aware. I have no such claim to water.
 
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familydog said:
How can I be garanteed the right to life, as the Declaration says, but be denied something that is needed to sustain life?
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It's the same as food. You have a right to life, but that doesn't mean you have a right to demand that your neighbors feed you.
 
You have a right not to come in out of the rain. They can't take that away from you.

Well, they can, if they put you in prison... But then they have to feed you.
 
SeanEdwards said:
It's the same as food. You have a right to life, but that doesn't mean you have a right to demand that your neighbors feed you.
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I'm not demanding my neighbors feed me. I'm not suggesting that they should. But if water isn't a "right" then it is a "privledge" and can easily be taken away when at a government's whim. Isn't that why, in the Declaration, "life" "liberty" and "happiness" (meaning property) are "rights"? Because they can't be taken away by any government or power? If we can't have water, we can't have life, liberty, or property. Water isn't just some other commercial product, it's necessary to sustain life. We can survive without oil, etc.
 
familydog said:
I'm not demanding my neighbors feed me. I'm not suggesting that they should. But if water isn't a "right" then it is a "privledge" and can easily be taken away when at a government's whim. Isn't that why, in the Declaration, "life" "liberty" and "happiness" (meaning property) are "rights"? Because they can't be taken away by any government or power? If we can't have water, we can't have life, liberty, or property. Water isn't just some other commercial product, it's necessary to sustain life. We can survive without oil, etc.
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I've thought the same things, but water, like food, is something that we have always had to work for. Think about tribal people with buckets hanging from a stick on their shoulders. It's not a right, it is a privilege, we've just always taken it for granted in this country.
 
familydog said:
I'm not demanding my neighbors feed me. I'm not suggesting that they should. But if water isn't a "right" then it is a "privledge" and can easily be taken away when at a government's whim. Isn't that why, in the Declaration, "life" "liberty" and "happiness" (meaning property) are "rights"? Because they can't be taken away by any government or power? If we can't have water, we can't have life, liberty, or property. Water isn't just some other commercial product, it's necessary to sustain life. We can survive without oil, etc.
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You can't survive without food either. Doesn't mean you have a right to force somebody else to provide you with sustenance. It's exactly the same with water. The oceans are full of water. If you are thirsty, go distill some of it. If you claim it as a right, you are implying that somebody, through the middleman of state power, should be compelled by force to furnish you with drinkable water. That isn't right. You can't force me to carry your water.
 
SeanEdwards said:
You can't force me to carry your water.
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Quite likely the most succinct argument for libertarianism (or even anarchy) that's ever been stated, on a lot of different levels.

EVERYTHING government does boils down to forcing you to carry someone else's water.
 
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