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Owning Asteroids + Do children have a right to be loved? - C C - Jan 6, 2016
Owning Asteroids
http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=9151
EXCERPT: While asteroid mining is still just science fiction, companies such as Planetary Resources are already preparing to mine the sky. While space mining sounds awesome, lawyers are already hard at work murdering the awesomeness with legalese. President Obama recently signed the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act which seems to make asteroid mining legal. The key part of the law is that “Any asteroid resources obtained in outer space are the property of the entity that obtained them, which shall be entitled to all property rights to them, consistent with applicable federal law and existing international obligations.” More concisely, the law makes it so that...
Do children have a right to be loved?
https://aeon.co/opinions/do-children-have-a-right-to-be-loved
EXCERPT: Surely every child on Earth should be loved. That seems obvious. But is that a human right? Many international declarations adopt this view. [...] Human rights should protect our fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life. There is strong evidence that all children need to be loved in order to develop and flourish, which means that being loved is one of those fundamental conditions. This suggests that a right to be loved should be up there with [other] rights [...] Yet there are a number of philosophical objections to the idea that children have a right to be loved, no matter how desirable it is that they should be loved....
RE: Owning Asteroids + Do children have a right to be loved? - elte - Jan 6, 2016
Further, a right to be happy, too, and a right to not suffer. Having those rights conflicts with the common notion that such rights involve only the seeking of them but not the guarantee of them in this hurtful, competitive world.
RE: Owning Asteroids + Do children have a right to be loved? - Magical Realist - Jan 10, 2016
Everyone has the right to be loved. Better yet, we have to right to love and be loved in return. Unfortunately the viccisitudes of life often deny us that right. If you get it, hold on to it for all your worth. And then at any time it can be taken away. So cherish it every moment.
RE: Owning Asteroids + Do children have a right to be loved? - elte - Jan 10, 2016
That seems so very true.