{"id":1700,"date":"2004-11-12T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2017-09-19T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T20:56:03","slug":"1700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/12\/1700\/","title":{"rendered":"Annoying"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a reasonable post about gay marriage over at Just One Minute<\/a>, the author offers an update to “refute” an argument by his opponents:<\/p>\n

MORE: For folks viewing gay marriage as a basic human right, this strategy is deeply annoying. OTOH, my casual research suggests that this “basic right” is recognized in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and nowhere else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Poor form, Peter. By analogy, we could argue that self-defense and ownership of the means to self-defense as a “basic right” is deeply annoying because it’s only recognized in a few places. Whether something is a “basic right” or not does not depend on what governments recognize it or not. Instead, a basic right is something which governments should not prohibit.<\/p>\n

Marriage is a special case because not only does it represent a behaviour that governments should not regulate–the right to copulate with and spend time with someone-or-more and to raise a family with someone-or-more –but it also adds a layer of government regulation on top, kind of an incorporation of that relationship to confer benefits on it.<\/p>\n

Ergo, although government does not, in most cases, restrict the behavior in question, it does confer special benefits upon a certain subclass of that relationship–that one instance of a man and a woman. Marriage is not a basic right, nor are any “rights” of this sort where the government, instead of not prohibiting a behavior, rewards<\/i> a behavior. These bennies that stem from the government are never<\/i> a right as they do come from the government at the government’s indulgence.<\/p>\n

But a lot of people blur the definition of basic right, intentionally or not, to include what their government gives to them instead of what their government cannot take from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a reasonable post about gay marriage over at Just One Minute, the author offers an update to “refute” an argument by his opponents: MORE: For folks viewing gay marriage as a basic human right, this strategy is deeply annoying. OTOH, my casual research suggests that this “basic right” is recognized in Belgium, the Netherlands, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16923,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions\/16923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}