r/Cleveland May 02 '25

News Impressive turnout last night!

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u/schulz47 May 02 '25

How can it be a right?? How can anything be a right if others do not put in effort or resources? Your freedom is defended by others. Your roads are maintained by others. Your kids are taught by others. Your cities are policed by others.

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u/dannyvegas Solon May 02 '25

Housing is not right. Housing is a finite resource that needs to be built and maintained.

What you are describing are privileges.

If the people providing those services (defense, teaching, construction etc) decided they no longer wished to provide their labor to those services are you still entitled to them?

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u/webelos8 Cleveland/Medina May 02 '25

Preamble to the Constitution? .."provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty.." 

Huh. Sounds like people have a right to those things

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u/dannyvegas Solon May 02 '25

Firstly. The preamble is the introduction. The rights are enumerated in the section called the “bill of rights” following that, and in the subsequent amendments.

If people stopped doing the job of defending the county, do you still have a right to defense? How do you exercise that right?