If you think there’s no such thing as rights, then you must also claim there are no such thing as wrongs. Are you willing to openly take such a stance?
Weatherall's avatar Weatherall
you have ZERO rights.
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"There is no sense to any concept of morality, regardless of the particular moral action one favors, if a man is not free to do the *immoral* as well as the moral thing. If a man is not free to choose, if he is compelled by force to do the moral thing, then, on the contrary, *he is being deprived of the opportunity of being moral.* He has not been permitted to weigh the alternatives, to arrive at his own conclusions, and to take his stand. If he is deprived of free choice, he is acting under the dictator’s will rather than his own." - Murray Rothbard, ***Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market*** (2009) p. 1305 https://cdn.mises.org/Man%2C%20Economy%2C%20and%20State%2C%20with%20Power%20and%20Market_2.pdf#page=1370
Every person has the right to choose what they do, but that does not mean they have a right to do anything. When I am talking about morality, I mean: **It is always wrong to initiate aggression on your fellow humans.** …anything outside of this, I do not call “moral” discussions, but rather taste/ preference. I assume Rothbard is talking in this realm, otherwise he is dead wrong. If a person were to kick a baby, I would certainly ‘compel them by force’ to stop …and I would hope countless others would too.