"Rights", to me has a connotation of something you can get without earning. It's being entitled to something, whether or not you deserve it.
People say that, in America, we have the RIGHT to arm ourselves and carry guns. Most people who own guns have never taken much training on how to use it properly, how to take care of it or how to lock it away. This IS the problem. If people were forced to be trained before actually having the gun, I believe society as a whole, would be better.
Then there's the RIGHT to be married and to procreate. I have seen more damage done to people because of bad marriages, or people having children who never should have. And yet we all accept that we have the RIGHT to do it. I'm not sure if there's any way to solve this issue.. of stopping people from getting into bad or abusive marriages or to stop mothers from kicking out babies just to get more out of the system, but because we have the RIGHT to do these things, the system gets abused.
Perhaps the better way to see this is that, legally, you should have the ability to do these things, but it is first your RESPONSIBILITY to learn what to do with it first. Admittedly, I'm not sure how to train people properly for things like marriage or child-rearing, but that's how I see it.
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"Rights", to me has a connotation of something you can get without earning. It's being entitled to something, whether or not you deserve it.
People say that, in America, we have the RIGHT to arm ourselves and carry guns. Most people who own guns have never taken much training on how to use it properly, how to take care of it or how to lock it away. This IS the problem. If people were forced to be trained before actually having the gun, I believe society as a whole, would be better.
Then there's the RIGHT to be married and to procreate.
I have seen more damage done to people because of bad marriages, or people having children who never should have.
And yet we all accept that we have the RIGHT to do it.
I'm not sure if there's any way to solve this issue.. of stopping people from getting into bad or abusive marriages or to stop mothers from kicking out babies just to get more out of the system, but because we have the RIGHT to do these things, the system gets abused.
Perhaps the better way to see this is that, legally, you should have the ability to do these things, but it is first your RESPONSIBILITY to learn what to do with it first.
Admittedly, I'm not sure how to train people properly for things like marriage or child-rearing, but that's how I see it.