{"id":489,"date":"2024-10-22T06:38:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T06:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/22\/rights-and-needs\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T06:38:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T06:38:39","slug":"rights-and-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/22\/rights-and-needs\/","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&#0160;<em>wrong question!&#0160;<\/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; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Vote, vote early, and vote against the tyrants and the projectionist liars and language abusers of the Kamalist Left. I am assuming that you understand what is in your own long-term best self-interest. Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/gunvote.org\/\">GunVote.org<\/a> to register.<\/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&#0160;wrong question!&#0160;Stop the pointless conversation right there. &quot;The question is not whether I need one; the question is whether I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/22\/rights-and-needs\/\" 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-489","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\/489","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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}