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Why would you expect "entrepreneurial solutions to government" to forsake human rights? Were the framers of the U.S. Constitution not political entrepreneurs?


I would expect "entrepreneurial solutions to government" to be at best neutral on human rights. Protecting human rights requires a great deal of political will to codify and then enforce. And it usually goes against the perceived best interests of the powers that be. It took a hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation (and the 14th Amendment) for the US to codify equal rights for minorities. On a cultural level, we still have way too many people who pine for the days when they could lynch a black man with no repercussions. I see no reason to think this enterprise would be able to muster the kind of political morality and will to go out of their way to protect human rights.

Yes, the Framers were a sort of political entrepreneur. They were the type of political entrepreneurs who allowed slavery to exist and came up with the 3/5ths compromise.


Because he thinks government beating people over the head, robbing them, and then giving the money to him is "protecting human rights", and the idea that people should be allowed to live in peace, without being subjected to this violence, is a "violation of human rights".


Putting words into someone's mouth, especially when they are such a profound misinterpretation of meaning, isn't the quality of discourse I have come to expect from HN. We can do better than this.




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