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| ▲ | IAmBroom 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The comments in this thread make it abundantly clear there's nothing new about the right. Seed sharing predates your "TIL" knowledge of it. |
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| ▲ | sejje 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | There's nothing new about the practice. It becoming a human right would certainly be new. That's like saying backhanding your kid is a human right. Every human on the planet practiced it forever. | | |
| ▲ | oregano 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is a wild line of reasoning. You are aligning violence with growing food from seed? Are you a Monsanto lobbyist or something? | | |
| ▲ | knollimar 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Their point is doing a thing for a long time doesn't enshrine it as a right. The comment before could have said "should be a human right". imo it's very frustrating having people say "thing I want is a right". What gives them that right? Are all laws not violation of rights if you extend that | | |
| ▲ | biophysboy 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | All rights now encoded in law were originally moral claims. | |
| ▲ | overfeed an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | They are completely ignoring the context of this whole thread, which exists because the highest court in the land (Kenyan land, that is) has affirmed that right. Ggp's is as absurd as a North Korean commenting on a SCOTUS ruling on the right to a fair trial by saying "This is a new human right I didn't even know I had." |
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| ▲ | oregano 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Perhaps because you have never had to think about the role agriculture plays in civilization. Encourage you to look into this issue more. |
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| ▲ | sejje 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm likely more connected to agriculture than you think. And I think seed-sharing should be enshrined legally. That's not the same as human rights. I think it's a silly practice lately to start proclaiming all these things are human rights. Particularly (not this case) when those things have to be given to them by other humans. | | |
| ▲ | alkonaut 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don't know what exactly "seed sharing" means (and the article doesn't describe it fully) but merely owning anything communally, or owning property - which includes the right to transfer it - seems like obvious human rights. What's actually a human right and what isn't will depend on who you ask, but just "Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others." seems to be applicable (UN Charter §17)? It doesn't feel like "random thing I think is important is a human right" at all? |
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