For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled. " Even bare … - Thomas Sowell

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I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else.

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For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled. " Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.

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