In case you missed it, this article is still valid today:



The declaration first covers what appear to be legitimate rights, such as “the right to life, liberty and security of person,” “the right to own property,” and freedom of “thought” and “opinion.” (The right to pursue happiness is absent, for reasons that will soon become obvious.) It then introduces a series of “economic rights,” such as a person’s “right” to work, paid holidays, protection against unemployment, social security, free education, and a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care. If people are entitled to these, who will be forced to provide them? Whose property will be seized to pay for them? [Glenn Woiceshyn, United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Destroys Individual Rights, Capitalism Magazine, December 11, 1998]

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