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Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
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Article 25. (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
I'm sorry, I was being absurd in an effort to point out absurdity. I just don't see the point in doing somthing without accomplishing anything. You are correct that they shouldn't remove the moto "Protect and Serve" because that is what they make a concerted effort to do on both large and small scales at all times and if the UN wants their moto to be "To feed the poor and hungry masses" they are welcome to it but, it seems to me that they spend more time talking about the problem than they do doing anything worth a crap.Stasi wrote: Since when did a statement in an organization's platform require a realistic chance at being accomplished in order to be valid? Should law enforcement cease to state its objective to "Protect and Serve" if it can't protect everybody all the time?
Education is not the cure-all to the world's ills. Educated and civilized people are still human, the masses are manipulable, and those things that cause people to go hungry will persist.
Nonetheless, the UN is a largely impotent organization. Its member nations are under no enforcible obligation to live by its declarations, and are often responsible for some of the very problems the UN is supposed to work against. The premise the United Nations was created under is a pipe dream that will probably be never fully realized.
Stasi wrote: Since when did a statement in an organization's platform require a realistic chance at being accomplished in order to be valid? Should law enforcement cease to state its objective to "Protect and Serve" if it can't protect everybody all the time?
you are right to add the '?' I didn't have enough time to finish my reply, however I have seen the topic going into a seperate directionFloodG8-9595 wrote:
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Perhaps it is a waste of time and energy, but I really like to view it as priorities. it is interesting to note the U.N. Charter was drafted-> Can they truly provide this right[/quote wrote: Everyone is making the assumption this right is for idle people or becoming a welfare state. It is not, the right is for everyone including yourself, Yes we do eat and yes we do work, However things change like the depression. If perhaps another depression hit wouldn't you find comfort in knowing you still have the right to food?
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I say if you're going to do somthing about world hunger do somthing and stop declaring your going to do somthing. I honestly don't believe that you can but, more power to keep wasting your time.
jfkWe choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
Yes, If I didn't work it wouldn't take me too long to run out of food. (the fact that I'd never do this not withstanding) so, all the things you listed have somthing to do with why one might choose a career but, the number one question on everyones mind is "will I be able to support myself?" The answer with almost any job is yes if you work it right.Can you honestly say you work to feed yourself?
I do agree, it is very basic and support includes more than food, housing, heat."will I be able to support myself?" The answer with almost any job is yes if you work it right
I somewhat agree/disagree with this, if another great depression were to set in, and the solution of the people was a 'mob' mentality, It would 'gap' the whole in the debate for the right to food. If say perhaps, that someone during a depression though to himself, I will steal some bread to feed himself, is this person entitled to the food?ALSO believe that the solution almost always lies in people not in government.
Of course not. Suppose he steals it from a family that is trying to feed three small children. Why would the robber be more entitled to that family's food than the family who struggled to find it for their own children?scherzo wrote: If say perhaps, that someone during a depression though to himself, I will steal some bread to feed himself, is this person entitled to the food?
Bookworm wrote:Of course not. Suppose he steals it from a family that is trying to feed three small children. Why would the robber be more entitled to that family's food than the family who struggled to find it for their own children?scherzo wrote: If say perhaps, that someone during a depression though to himself, I will steal some bread to feed himself, is this person entitled to the food?
