{"id":12424,"date":"2021-10-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=12424"},"modified":"2021-10-27T14:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T18:59:49","slug":"729-unnatural-rights-paul-mckeever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/12424","title":{"rendered":"729 – Unnatural rights | Paul McKeever"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In opposition, our guest – leader of the Freedom Party of Ontario Paul McKeever – has called for an outright legal ban on discrimination based on vaccination status.<\/strong> Because such a ban would apply to private businesses and service providers, the question has arisen as to whether such a prohibition represents a violation of private property rights and freedom of association.<\/p>\n

Not so, argues Paul in a written report he has called \u2018The Rights Argument: a self-destructive perversion of rights.\u2019<\/strong> Most significantly, notes Paul, the \u2018rights argument\u2019 \u2013 routinely made by freedom advocates themselves – is perfectly consistent with the establishment of a fascist society. Under this theory, the usual source of individual rights has been described as \u2018God-given\u2019 or \u2018natural\u2019 or \u2018morally-based.\u2019<\/p>\n

The classic error made by the \u2018rights argument\u2019 is to assume that \u2018rights\u2019 \u2013 however defined – exist independently of any government or law. Rights are not \u2018ethical\u2019 in nature: they are \u2018political.\u2019 Rights concern not \u2018shoulds\u2019 but \u2018shalls.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

The \u2018rights argument\u2019 fails to protect rights because it fails to recognize that rights exist to serve the purpose of defending human nature,<\/strong> concludes Paul. <\/p>\n

One thing is certain. Unless rights \u2013 political and legal – are fully understood in a way that is Just Right, we soon won\u2019t have any.<\/p>\n

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Under their agenda of requiring vaccination passports presented to both public (government) and private service providers alike, politicians have created a political target for discrimination: the so-called \u2018unvaccinated.\u2019 In opposition, our guest – leader of the Freedom Party of Ontario Paul McKeever – has called for an outright legal ban on discrimination based on vaccination [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,28,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-ethics","category-latest","category-law","issues-law-2","issues-rights","category-12-id","category-5-id","category-28-id","category-205-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12434,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12424\/revisions\/12434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}