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When people say "food is a human right" they typically want the government to provide food to the hungry. They don't want to make it illegal to operate a restaurant.

When people say "housing is a human right", what they really mean is that they want to outlaw renting or even private home ownership. If the government moved every homeless person to Wyoming and gave them a home, that wouldn't be enough.



on one hand: no, nobody wants to outlaw private home ownership aside from tankies, and everybody hates tankies.

On the other, that'd probably make Wyoming a kickass place to live in.




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