Life, Liberty and Property Day

Today, December 10th is Human Rights day. While the concept of human rights are beacon in human thought, amendments to this concept are necessary. How so?

Any human right that is an expense of another constitute an aggression. For example, article 25 of the human rights declaration grants “Adequate Living Standard”. In other words, if my living standards are “inadequate” – it is impossible to precisely define “adequate living standards — you will have to be taxed. This will lower your living standard and raises mine — given that during the wealth distribution there is no leakage of funds. Do you think this is fair? Of course not, me forcing you — usually by means of a powerful state — to pay for my rent, my food and my Internet is an aggregation against your life, liberty and property.

In fact, philisophers such as Murry Rothbard, Ayan Rand, Albert Jay Nock developed the Nonaggression principle. Here is Murray Rothbard’s version:

“No one may threaten or commit violence (‘aggress’) against another man’s person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another…”

The non-aggration principle is a modern-day version of the bible’s olden rule: “one should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself”.

The Human Rights Declaration includes the right to Social Security, Education, Cultural Life, Public Hearing, Rest, and even Leisure. These rights can only be grated at the expense of other human beings. Thus, they shouldn’t be in the Declaration at all.

This is, however, not to say humans shouldn’t engage in education, culture, rest and leisure. By all means we should! But the way to get education is by spending our own property (money) on books, lessons and tutoring. And when the state gets out of the way of education, the teachers, tutors and text book writers will cater to the needs of the students and parents hereby creating a much more diverse, interesting, personalized and smarter education system. And TutorZ is a part of this industry serving you as our education client.

We at TutorZ think of December 10th as the Life, Liberty and Property day and recommend the readings of Ludwig von Mises on this day: https://mises.org/library/liberty-and-property