[Reaganesque]

This country was founded on the notion that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Governments exist (or at least should exist) to protect our God given or natural rights, not to create and/or define them. Once people buy into the idea that they can create their own rights, everything becomes a right.

When every person’s desires and/or wants become their “right”, community, charity, selflessness go flying out the window. Its every man and woman for his or herself. We become a world and community of selfish cry babies whose one and only interest is in securing our own rights regardless of whom it harms. That’s why this matters.

We human beings have a nearly unlimited ability to convince ourselves that what we want is actually something we desperately need. The reasoning becomes: I need to get to work therefore I have the right to a car. And if I have a right to a car, what kind of car, then, is my right to own? Are my rights secured if I get a used VW or do my rights entitle me to an Aston Martin DB9? Or, I need to be able to communicate therefore I have a right to a cellphone. But not just any phone, I want the top of the line IPhone! It’s my right!

So, when wants are inflated to needs and from there, rights, where does it end? Where does personal responsibility enter into the equation? Should personal responsibility have a role in our society? For Liberals, the answer to both questions seems to be: never. Gimme what I want...er...need! No society can last long with such a selfish society. Just ask the Romans.

There are other ways of addressing the issue of connectivity than declaring it to be a fundamental human right. To declare such a trivial matter a human right is to denigrate the notion of human rights entirely.

[Personal Responsibility]

So, when wants are inflated to needs and from there, rights, where does it end? Where does personal responsibility enter into the equation? Should personal responsibility have a role in our society?

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Hear, hear! ;-)

[wendy1946]

We're talking about children here. Somehow or other, access to the internet has to be available to everybody attending any sort of a school, period, end of story. If you can do that without going down the road of questionable rights fine, but something has to be done and a political party which ignores this reality will find itself out in the cold.