{"id":82450,"date":"2022-06-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82450"},"modified":"2022-06-13T06:42:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:42:21","slug":"wrong-about-rights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82450","title":{"rendered":"Wrong About Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This has become one of my pet peeves:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/heather_edelson\/status\/1529438236845740032\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That one, there.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would you say &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a right for my kitchen not to catch on fire?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only if you&#8217;re an idiot.  You have a right to a kitchen.  You have a responsibility to keep it from catching on fire.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would you say &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a right not to have my house hit by a tornado?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You could.  It&#8217;d be absurd.  You do have a responsibility to watch the sky, turn on the radio, and look out for your and your family&#8217;s safety, though.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; is there a &#8220;right to safety?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No.  Adults have a responsibility to protect children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And literally none of the things Rep. Edelson is demanding will ive up to any part of that responsibility. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has become one of my pet peeves: That one, there. Would you say &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a right for my kitchen not to catch on fire?&#8221; Only if you&#8217;re an idiot. You have a right to a kitchen. You have a responsibility to keep it from catching on fire. Would you say &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82451,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82450\/revisions\/82451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}