What isn’t a “human right” to a leftist, huh? As long as they can abuse their power to force people to pay for things, why not just invent new human rights all day long?
Well, that is what the Democrats in lefty Spokane, Washington, apparently just did, because now they have decided that air-conditioning in living spaces is a “human right.”
First of all, let’s clear up what a “human right” is in the first place. A “right” is something that all people have equally. But it is also something that we inherently have as a human and is something that requires no other person to participate in to be realized. That means it is something that can only be prevented from being realized, not facilitated and cannot require someone else to facilitate.
So, healthcare is not a right. Food is not a right. Shelter is not a right. Being given a job is not a right. Why? Because all these things require someone else to give you something to make sure you can indulge that right. All those things would also force others to do things for you, which in and of itself deprives those others from exercising their own right NOT to do something for you i they don’t want to.
So, healthcare is not a right because t would presuppose that a doctor or nurse HAS to treat you. This takes away their own agency to decide what they want to do. Food is not a right because it would necessarily force a farmer to give you the fruits of his labor whether he wants to or not. But that would be taking away the farmer’s rights to choose.
So, ultimately, air-conditioning is also not a right because it would require everyone who makes, sells, and installs air-conditioners a slave to your “right” to have air-conditioning.
But the Democratsw in Spokane are too stupid to understand these very simple concepts.
Per Just the News:
Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown signed the city council’s “Heat, Health and Safety Ordinance” on Friday, codifying a tenant’s right to air conditioning.
The renter protection measure sponsored by Councilmember Kitty Klitzke and Council President Betsy Wilkerson almost entirely guarantees a tenant’s right to air conditioning. Whether hot or cold, the tenant controls the temperature.
Klitzke and Wilkerson’s ordinance is based on Oregon’s Senate Bill 1536, which prohibits landlords from restricting portable cooling devices. However, Spokane’s version goes a step further and provides that the ordinance applies year-round instead of only during the summer.
“This legislation is critically important for our community as we face the reality of extreme heat every summer,” Brown said on Friday. “The ordinance will ensure that people have access to air conditioning and, by doing so, will provide both comfort and save lives.”
It’s all just more costly, un-American, wokery and Democrat meddling in our society.
Making every last little comfort a “right” necessarily diminishes our real rights.
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