Robert Hirsch
1 min readSep 5, 2024

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Well I think you have confused rights and privileges and are teaching the right action and wrong concepts.

North Korea and Venezuela also consider these to be "rights" and deliver both horribly and at the expense of actual rights.

It does not take other people for you to have a right. That is why you have the right to breathe, the right to own something you made, the right to preserve your own life, the right to assemble and trade with people you want.

But as soon as someone else is required to instantiate your right, it's not a right, it is someone else providing a privilege to you. You have the right to provide your own healthcare, you do not have a right for someone else to do it. If you are requiring someone else to do it, we call that slavery.

So, the lesson here is that "Other countries provide better privileges than the US, often at the expense of rights, and that is the trade off you get to decide for yourself if it works for you.

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Robert Hirsch
Robert Hirsch

Written by Robert Hirsch

Author, Maker, Father, Dreamer. Robert received his Ph.D. from RPI in Mechatronics. Since then, consumer devices, renewable energy, and now blockchain.

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