Can someone explain this please? Even if everyone agrees that food is a human right, who grows the food? Does food become free? Who pays for it?
Can someone explain this please? Even if everyone agrees that food is a human right, who grows the food? Does food become free? Who pays for it?
@IterIntellectus The UN is everything that’s wrong with the world. These measures are theater. Nothing happens if it passes, nothing. The US sent a very clear message. We are not going to play their stupid game.
@IterIntellectus Steelman: under existing welfare schemes, some budget is allocated to nutritionally sufficient but flavorless (maybe lowkey nasty) soylentslop that can be freely procured in state-ran poor kitchens (and has to be consumed on the spot) Hunger Solved. It'll also be very cheap.
@IterIntellectus Nothing that requires the labour of others is a human right. Food is a need, not a right. Rights don’t require the forced labour of others. You’re free to grow it, buy it, trade for it etc, but you can’t demand someone else provide it for you
@IterIntellectus "You will be forced to grow food for others and rationed your own food supplies"
@IterIntellectus They should just make immortality in infinite bliss into a human right and cut to the end game.
@IterIntellectus No of course it doesn't become free. But that doesn't need to be the case. You can just say "yeah food is a basic human right, everyone should have access to food."
@IterIntellectus The more important question is, what if you disagree with creating that food for other people? Do they send people with guns to enforce it? What's the word for doing that to other people again?
@IterIntellectus scarcity is not yet solved. we should solve it for real. but this gets back to the core issue
@IterIntellectus "Food is a right" is a VERY slippery slope to synthetic food. Because cost of producing artificial food is cheap - this might become mainstream. Here's your "food rights", anon
@IterIntellectus Rich countries vote for it to virtue signal. Poor countries vote for it because they plan to leverage it to get handouts in the future. Only two countries are willing to call bullshit.
@IterIntellectus food is a human right in the same way robux are a human right
@IterIntellectus It’s just the next iteration of global communism. 🤷🏼♂️
It's because people are too dumb to understand human rights. It's something you have simply by virtue of being human, like being able to think and speak freely. Everyone can do these things simultaneously at all times without infringing on each other. If food was a human right then any time I didn't have food technically my rights would be being infringed upon. And by whom? Everyone in the world who's not me? Farmers? Who gets fined/jailed for not providing me with food? Who decides that I'm getting adequate food and nutrition? The whole thing breaks down quickly if you think about it for more than 5 seconds. Obviously I think people should have access to affordable nutritious food but you realistically can't make it a human right.
@IterIntellectus Your human rights can’t force someone else to do work. Food requires work. Therefore, food can’t be a human right.
@IterIntellectus I mean it does literally grow on trees… at least in some countries 😅
@IterIntellectus IMO, it boils down to access to seeds (the most important) that can grow in certain soils. Control the seeds and you control access to food.. I urge you to read about this and how agriculture evolved in the Pax Americana era
@IterIntellectus It’s probably just money laundering
@IterIntellectus if it requires the labor of others, it's not a right
@IterIntellectus Poeple want free food bro , that’s how I see it imo 🙂↕️
@IterIntellectus Negative rights mean others can’t interfere with you (e.g. no one can take your property). Positive rights mean others must provide for you (e.g. someone has to give you things). Some political philosophies elevate the former and frown upon the latter.
@IterIntellectus Actions speak louder than words, and declaring something a 'right' does not make it abundant or immune to market forces.
@IterIntellectus We do, with our taxes, and our inflated cost of living.
