Saturday, January 30, 2016

Right and Greed

As has been previously discussed, the U. N. Human Right to an adequate standard of living seems to belunfortunately misformulated, since a Right is a defense against interference, whereas the target of that one is neglect, i. e. an omission, not a commission.  However, with a slight modulation, the propriety and the power of the principle becomes clarified. For, it can be interpreted as "A human has a right to only an adequate standard of living", implying that one has no right to a possession that is inessential.  Now, while such a proposition seems to violate a fundamental freedom, it, in fact, is a principle of constraint against Greed, which, outside of some variations of Capitalism, is traditionally and widely recognized as a Vice, and, so, the principle is entailed in many Moral doctrines.  Furthermore, in a Zero-Sum society, to the Excess of one corresponds the Deficiency of another, so Greed is an interference in someone's well-being.  Hence, with a little fine-tuning, that proposition is, indeed, a Right, one which addresses a problem that, in some cases, is so pervasive and deeply entrenched, e. g. in the U. S., it is not even recognized as an ill.

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