RE: Federal Judge rules "No fundamental right to literacy"
July 1, 2018 at 11:58 pm
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2018 at 12:06 am by Anomalocaris.)
(July 1, 2018 at 8:04 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: I can't say that I disagree with the ruling. Educational opportunity might be a right, seeing that it is a matter of law. However, we can't elevate everything to the level of a right just because it's desirable.
Right is nothing more than desirability sanctified.
In this case, to admit something is desirable but to deny that it is a right is clearly a but a bit of rhetorical gymnastic to excuse the denying to some people, and not solely out of concern for practicality, of what is extremely desirable so as to enable others to gain more of what is even more of what is even further from a right.