Eric wrote:
>
> >I'm sorry, Ian, this is wayyy too glib. We don't go immediately
> >from a right to a job or an adequate income, a right to a decent
> >education, and so forth to an Orwellian nightmare or a Huxleyian
> >dystopia. To get us onto the slippery slope, you have to show us how
> >the first steps make the slide to the evil reductio plausible,
> >likely, certain.
>
> I'm tempted to say this is complete nonsense. There's no sliding
> involved, no step necessary to go from rights to dystopia, because
> they are (of) the same regime. In other words, rights are not just
> magically brought into existence. They are granted, secured, and
> maintained by the same entity that ensures evil (as you call it,
> though I would say control or something like that).
I find this simply unintelligible. "Entity" is empty of content.
Carrol