{"id":1922,"date":"2022-08-07T18:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T18:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/07\/rights-and-needs-2\/"},"modified":"2022-08-07T18:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T18:31:55","slug":"rights-and-needs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/07\/rights-and-needs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights and Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">You can have a right to a thing whether or not you have or will have a need for it. So the best response to the leftist who asks, &quot;Why do you need a gun?&quot; is <em>wrong question! <\/em>Stop the pointless conversation right there. &quot;The question is not whether I need one; the question is whether I have a right to one.&quot; Then explain that the right to appropriate means of self-defense follows from the right to self-defense which in turn follows from the right to life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Depending on the sort of leftist you are dealing with you could then go on to explain why you do need a gun. But the wisest policy is not to debate leftists. Leftists need to be defeated not debated.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can have a right to a thing whether or not you have or will have a need for it. So the best response to the leftist who asks, &quot;Why do you need a gun?&quot; is wrong question! Stop the pointless conversation right there. &quot;The question is not whether I need one; the question is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/07\/rights-and-needs-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rights and Needs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,44,311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-political-tactics","category-rights-and-duties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}