From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
> Food Is, Still, Clearly Not a Human Right - answers to you all
>"Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
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>Not what I mean by a right. A right to X (I tire of repeating) means that
>you may not take X away from mer without my say so.
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>CB: What is a freedom ?
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A negative freedom to X is a lack of constraint or compulsion to X. A positive freedom to X is the possession of the resources and effective ability to X. A "real" freedom (in the Rousseau-Hegel-Marx sense) to X is the identification with X as a goal, the giving of X as a law to oneself.
Since you asked. . . .
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CB: What is the relationship between rights and freedoms ? What is the relationship between rights and the state ?