Really good to read how you describe the use of language and the shift.
One comment I wanted to make is about rights, and an individuals right. An individuals right to something should have no imposition on another individual to observe. In this way rights naturally are a negative, i.e. right to defend your life, liberty and property as Bastiat wrote in The Law.
Food, shelter and clothing are really necessities as everyone learns in school, but none of us had a right to it. If we had a right to food i.e. a positive right, then we can enslave another individual to provide food without their consent which conflicts with the right to defend ones liberty and property.
As you so eloquently put, we have forgotten this and what it took to get the level of individual liberty that once existed.
Really good to read how you describe the use of language and the shift.
One comment I wanted to make is about rights, and an individuals right. An individuals right to something should have no imposition on another individual to observe. In this way rights naturally are a negative, i.e. right to defend your life, liberty and property as Bastiat wrote in The Law.
Food, shelter and clothing are really necessities as everyone learns in school, but none of us had a right to it. If we had a right to food i.e. a positive right, then we can enslave another individual to provide food without their consent which conflicts with the right to defend ones liberty and property.
As you so eloquently put, we have forgotten this and what it took to get the level of individual liberty that once existed.