• Re: is it a human right ...

    From Wilson@Wilson@nowhere.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Sun May 10 19:41:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away???


    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So
    what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

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  • From Wilson@Wilson@nowhere.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Sun May 10 19:43:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/10/2026 1:55 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 10:37:36 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away???


    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Is Nick thinking he has a human right to your house and property to make
    himself secure and that nobody can take your house away from him?

    Or, is he thinking he has a human right to an apartment on the
    government dime?

    Maybe he's thinking he has a right to be provided for.

    By whom?

    Maybe you are simply full of shit.

    Noah avoids addressing the deeper issues.

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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Sun May 10 21:30:05 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away???


    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be >>>> a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure >>> in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So
    what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even >beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Sun May 10 21:31:02 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:43:17 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:55 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 10:37:36 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away???


    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be >>>> a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Is Nick thinking he has a human right to your house and property to make >>> himself secure and that nobody can take your house away from him?

    Or, is he thinking he has a human right to an apartment on the
    government dime?

    Maybe he's thinking he has a right to be provided for.

    By whom?

    Maybe you are simply full of shit.

    Noah avoids addressing the deeper issues.

    Yeah, when I see shit brown eyes, that is all I need to know.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Sun May 10 19:21:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/10/2026 6:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away???


    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be >>>>> a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure >>>> in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3 >>>> of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So
    what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even
    beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    In that case, you might try starting up a neighborhood watch program.
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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Sun May 10 19:51:08 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/10/2026 11:11 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 11:04:52 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 10:29 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 10:08:52 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 7:41 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sat, 9 May 2026 23:28:27 -0700, dart200
    <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

    On 5/8/26 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be >>>>>>> a good idea but it's not a "right".


    i've been thinking about this premise lot recently, and i now believe >>>>>> capitalism has largely not been providing a _home_ for many or even most >>>>>> people across the planet.

    it's largely provided /housing/ sure ... but not a _home_ where you are >>>>>> existentially safe from others taking it away from you. the wealthy >>>>>> largely have that safety given the means of survival that they own, that >>>>>> everyone else depends on. they do not experience the overall life
    pressure that such a persistent threat of homelessness puts on a person. >>>>>>
    i wonder what a world is like when everyone has that safety, always... >>>>>
    A psych prof one time discussing reinforced behavior in animals and
    humans, like an orgasm is one hell of a reinforcement for whatever you >>>>> need to do to get one. In passing, he casually mentioned that the
    biggest reinforcer for humans is money, but he declaimed to discuss
    that further. That is something to think about though. What behavior >>>>> does money (a paycheck) reinforce in us?

    Wealth is subjective.

    Define the problem out of existence. However, I don't think you can
    get that from what I said about reinforced behavior.

    You changed the topic from having a secure home to psychology of
    reinforced behavior. You did not define any human rights.

    Define it out of existence and change the subject. The double whammy.

    List, cracker. I already posted the definition of basic human rights.
    Can't you read?

    Yes, in an attempt to divert the topic away from what you do not want
    to discuss.

    The UN Declaration is all about human rights. Not psychology. Or
    subjective wealth.
    It is not a human right. Where did you and Nick
    get the idea that wealth is a human right and that you should get the
    wealth of others?
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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Mon May 11 00:10:26 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:51:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 11:11 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 11:04:52 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 10:29 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 10:08:52 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>
    On 5/10/2026 7:41 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sat, 9 May 2026 23:28:27 -0700, dart200
    <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

    On 5/8/26 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".


    i've been thinking about this premise lot recently, and i now believe >>>>>>> capitalism has largely not been providing a _home_ for many or even most
    people across the planet.

    it's largely provided /housing/ sure ... but not a _home_ where you are >>>>>>> existentially safe from others taking it away from you. the wealthy >>>>>>> largely have that safety given the means of survival that they own, that
    everyone else depends on. they do not experience the overall life >>>>>>> pressure that such a persistent threat of homelessness puts on a person.

    i wonder what a world is like when everyone has that safety, always... >>>>>>
    A psych prof one time discussing reinforced behavior in animals and >>>>>> humans, like an orgasm is one hell of a reinforcement for whatever you >>>>>> need to do to get one. In passing, he casually mentioned that the >>>>>> biggest reinforcer for humans is money, but he declaimed to discuss >>>>>> that further. That is something to think about though. What behavior >>>>>> does money (a paycheck) reinforce in us?

    Wealth is subjective.

    Define the problem out of existence. However, I don't think you can
    get that from what I said about reinforced behavior.

    You changed the topic from having a secure home to psychology of
    reinforced behavior. You did not define any human rights.

    Define it out of existence and change the subject. The double whammy. >>>>
    List, cracker. I already posted the definition of basic human rights.
    Can't you read?

    Yes, in an attempt to divert the topic away from what you do not want
    to discuss.

    The UN Declaration is all about human rights. Not psychology. Or
    subjective wealth.

    It is a little stiff for toilet paper, but it will do in a pinch.

    It is not a human right. Where did you and Nick
    get the idea that wealth is a human right and that you should get the >>>>> wealth of others?
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Mon May 11 00:11:14 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:21:34 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 6:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away???


    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be >>>>>> a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure >>>>> in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3 >>>>> of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So
    what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even
    beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    In that case, you might try starting up a neighborhood watch program.

    Lucky for me I no longer live in a place where that might be needed.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Wilson@Wilson@nowhere.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Mon May 11 12:20:47 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/10/2026 9:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away???


    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be >>>>> a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure >>>> in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3 >>>> of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So
    what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even
    beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    Well you live in Canada, so there's always MAID.

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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Mon May 11 09:38:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/10/2026 9:10 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:51:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 11:11 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 11:04:52 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 10:29 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 10:08:52 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>
    On 5/10/2026 7:41 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sat, 9 May 2026 23:28:27 -0700, dart200
    <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

    On 5/8/26 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".


    i've been thinking about this premise lot recently, and i now believe >>>>>>>> capitalism has largely not been providing a _home_ for many or even most
    people across the planet.

    it's largely provided /housing/ sure ... but not a _home_ where you are
    existentially safe from others taking it away from you. the wealthy >>>>>>>> largely have that safety given the means of survival that they own, that
    everyone else depends on. they do not experience the overall life >>>>>>>> pressure that such a persistent threat of homelessness puts on a person.

    i wonder what a world is like when everyone has that safety, always... >>>>>>>
    A psych prof one time discussing reinforced behavior in animals and >>>>>>> humans, like an orgasm is one hell of a reinforcement for whatever you >>>>>>> need to do to get one. In passing, he casually mentioned that the >>>>>>> biggest reinforcer for humans is money, but he declaimed to discuss >>>>>>> that further. That is something to think about though. What behavior >>>>>>> does money (a paycheck) reinforce in us?

    Wealth is subjective.

    Define the problem out of existence. However, I don't think you can >>>>> get that from what I said about reinforced behavior.

    You changed the topic from having a secure home to psychology of
    reinforced behavior. You did not define any human rights.

    Define it out of existence and change the subject. The double whammy. >>>>>
    List, cracker. I already posted the definition of basic human rights.
    Can't you read?

    Yes, in an attempt to divert the topic away from what you do not want
    to discuss.

    The UN Declaration is all about human rights. Not psychology. Or
    subjective wealth.

    It is a little stiff for toilet paper, but it will do in a pinch.

    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration
    says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his
    weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.



    It is not a human right. Where did you and Nick
    get the idea that wealth is a human right and that you should get the >>>>>> wealth of others?

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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Mon May 11 09:44:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/10/2026 9:11 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:21:34 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 6:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be >>>>>>> a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure >>>>>> in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3 >>>>>> of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom. >>>>>
    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So
    what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even
    beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    In that case, you might try starting up a neighborhood watch program.

    Lucky for me I no longer live in a place where that might be needed.

    In most normal neighborhoods, neighbors look after each other; in others
    you are just on your own. YMMV.

    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.
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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Mon May 11 10:19:55 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/10/2026 4:43 PM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 1:55 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 10:37:36 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away???


    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be >>>> a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Is Nick thinking he has a human right to your house and property to make >>> himself secure and that nobody can take your house away from him?

    Or, is he thinking he has a human right to an apartment on the
    government dime?

    Maybe he's thinking he has a right to be provided for.

    By whom?

    Maybe you are simply full of shit.

    Noah avoids addressing the deeper issues.

    He does have a point. YMMV.

    Butt, compared to what? Nick?
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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Mon May 11 10:22:42 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/10/2026 6:31 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:43:17 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:55 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 10:37:36 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away???


    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be >>>>> a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Is Nick thinking he has a human right to your house and property to make >>>> himself secure and that nobody can take your house away from him?

    Or, is he thinking he has a human right to an apartment on the
    government dime?

    Maybe he's thinking he has a right to be provided for.

    By whom?

    Maybe you are simply full of shit.

    Noah avoids addressing the deeper issues.

    Yeah, when I see shit brown eyes, that is all I need to know.

    Alright then. That's a wrap. It is a human right to be secure in your
    own home (if you have one), or vote for rent controls. Good work!
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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Mon May 11 13:31:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Mon, 11 May 2026 09:44:38 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 9:11 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:21:34 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 6:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3 >>>>>>> of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>>>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom. >>>>>>
    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So >>>>>> what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even >>>>> beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    In that case, you might try starting up a neighborhood watch program.

    Lucky for me I no longer live in a place where that might be needed.

    In most normal neighborhoods, neighbors look after each other; in others
    you are just on your own. YMMV.

    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.

    I'm not sure what happened but we were talking about this:

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    not hiding behind locked doors.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Mon May 11 13:32:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:20:47 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 9:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away???


    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be >>>>>> a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure >>>>> in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3 >>>>> of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So
    what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even
    beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    Well you live in Canada, so there's always MAID.

    That's a comfort. A right to not die in massive suffering. That is
    worth something. Frame it a put it on the wall.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Mon May 11 19:47:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/11/2026 10:31 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 09:44:38 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 9:11 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:21:34 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 6:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>>>>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom. >>>>>>>
    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So >>>>>>> what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even >>>>>> beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    In that case, you might try starting up a neighborhood watch program.

    Lucky for me I no longer live in a place where that might be needed.

    In most normal neighborhoods, neighbors look after each other; in others
    you are just on your own. YMMV.

    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.

    I'm not sure what happened but we were talking about this:

    Nick was asking if it was a human right to have a home that was secure
    that nobody could take away and I replied that your body/mind is your
    home and your human right and if you want a house, buy one and make it
    secure with a neighborhood watch and a locked door. That is his right.

    So, that's a wrap.


    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    not hiding behind locked doors.

    You have a right to be secure in your own home. Where's Nick? It's his
    thread.
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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Mon May 11 23:22:08 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Mon, 11 May 2026 19:47:01 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 10:31 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 09:44:38 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 9:11 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:21:34 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>
    On 5/10/2026 6:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom. >>>>>>>>
    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So >>>>>>>> what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even >>>>>>> beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    In that case, you might try starting up a neighborhood watch program. >>>>
    Lucky for me I no longer live in a place where that might be needed.

    In most normal neighborhoods, neighbors look after each other; in others >>> you are just on your own. YMMV.

    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.

    I'm not sure what happened but we were talking about this:


    Nice try. I don't need to go back very far to find this;:
    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.

    Yup, you said that, and I wondered where that came from.

    You are guilty as charged.

    Nick was asking if it was a human right to have a home that was secure
    that nobody could take away and I replied that your body/mind is your
    home and your human right and if you want a house, buy one and make it >secure with a neighborhood watch and a locked door. That is his right.

    You repeated your dogma once again. Do you imagine you convinced
    anybody this time?


    So, that's a wrap.


    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    not hiding behind locked doors.

    You have a right to be secure in your own home. Where's Nick? It's his >thread.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 00:41:14 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 9:10 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:51:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 11:11 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 11:04:52 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>
    On 5/10/2026 10:29 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 10:08:52 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 7:41 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sat, 9 May 2026 23:28:27 -0700, dart200
    <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

    On 5/8/26 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it >>>>>>>>>> might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".


    i've been thinking about this premise lot recently, and i now >>>>>>>>> believe
    capitalism has largely not been providing a _home_ for many or >>>>>>>>> even most
    people across the planet.

    it's largely provided /housing/ sure ... but not a _home_ where >>>>>>>>> you are
    existentially safe from others taking it away from you. the >>>>>>>>> wealthy
    largely have that safety given the means of survival that they >>>>>>>>> own, that
    everyone else depends on. they do not experience the overall life >>>>>>>>> pressure that such a persistent threat of homelessness puts on >>>>>>>>> a person.

    i wonder what a world is like when everyone has that safety, >>>>>>>>> always...

    A psych prof one time discussing reinforced behavior in animals and >>>>>>>> humans, like an orgasm is one hell of a reinforcement for
    whatever you
    need to do to get one.-a In passing, he casually mentioned that the >>>>>>>> biggest reinforcer for humans is money, but he declaimed to discuss >>>>>>>> that further.-a That is something to think about though.-a What >>>>>>>> behavior
    does money (a paycheck) reinforce in us?

    Wealth is subjective.

    Define the problem out of existence.-a However, I don't think you can >>>>>> get that from what I said about reinforced behavior.

    You changed the topic from having a secure home to psychology of
    reinforced behavior. You did not define any human rights.

    Define it out of existence and change the subject.-a The double
    whammy.

    List, cracker. I already posted the definition of basic human rights. >>>>> Can't you read?

    Yes, in an attempt to divert the topic away from what you do not want
    to discuss.

    The UN Declaration is all about human rights. Not psychology. Or
    subjective wealth.

    It is a little stiff for toilet paper, but it will do in a pinch.

    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration
    says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his
    weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable


    It is not a human right. Where did you and Nick
    get the idea that wealth is a human right and that you should get >>>>>>> the
    wealth of others?
    --
    hi, i'm nick!
    let's end war EfOa

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  • From Wilson@Wilson@nowhere.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 08:36:54 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 9:10 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:51:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    The UN Declaration is all about human rights. Not psychology. Or
    subjective wealth.

    It is a little stiff for toilet paper, but it will do in a pinch.

    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration
    says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his
    weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical.
    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.

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  • From Wilson@Wilson@nowhere.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 08:41:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/11/2026 1:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:20:47 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 9:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be >>>>>>> a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure >>>>>> in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3 >>>>>> of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom. >>>>>
    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So
    what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even
    beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    Well you live in Canada, so there's always MAID.

    That's a comfort. A right to not die in massive suffering. That is
    worth something. Frame it a put it on the wall.

    It's one of the few individual rights Canada is interested in protecting
    these days. That it also aligns with their goal of reducing healthcare
    costs is probably just a coincidence.

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  • From Wilson@Wilson@nowhere.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 08:43:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/11/2026 1:22 PM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 6:31 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:43:17 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:55 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 10:37:36 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away???


    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it
    might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Is Nick thinking he has a human right to your house and property to >>>>> make
    himself secure and that nobody can take your house away from him?

    Or, is he thinking he has a human right to an apartment on the
    government dime?

    Maybe he's thinking he has a right to be provided for.

    By whom?

    Maybe you are simply full of shit.

    Noah avoids addressing the deeper issues.

    Yeah, when I see shit brown eyes, that is all I need to know.

    Alright then. That's a wrap. It is a human right to be secure in your
    own home (if you have one), or vote for rent controls. Good work!

    But back to the subject at hand that Noah sidestepped, does Nick believe
    he has a human right to your house and property?

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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 10:28:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 9:10 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:51:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>
    The UN Declaration is all about human rights. Not psychology. Or
    subjective wealth.

    It is a little stiff for toilet paper, but it will do in a pinch.

    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration
    says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his
    weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical.

    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary views.

    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.

    That is your opinion. Not necessarily a fact.

    For one thing, you assume that protecting property rights is actually necessary. Without protections, hordes would assemble to take such
    property away. It could be that people would remain about their
    business as they always were. Feeding kids would remain more
    important that taking your stuff away, so that somebody could in turn
    take it from me.

    Your view of society is brutal. And in view of certain segments,
    justified. The question then, as now, as always, is what to do about
    those segments?

    The era of flashing bumper stickers at each other is mostly past, yet
    here we are still doing it.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 10:29:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:41:24 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 1:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:20:47 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 9:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3 >>>>>>> of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>>>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom. >>>>>>
    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So >>>>>> what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even >>>>> beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    Well you live in Canada, so there's always MAID.

    That's a comfort. A right to not die in massive suffering. That is
    worth something. Frame it a put it on the wall.

    It's one of the few individual rights Canada is interested in protecting >these days. That it also aligns with their goal of reducing healthcare
    costs is probably just a coincidence.

    Everything is a conspiracy isn't it, wilson?
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 10:31:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:43:21 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 1:22 PM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 6:31 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:43:17 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:55 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 10:37:36 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it
    might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Is Nick thinking he has a human right to your house and property to >>>>>> make
    himself secure and that nobody can take your house away from him?

    Or, is he thinking he has a human right to an apartment on the
    government dime?

    Maybe he's thinking he has a right to be provided for.

    By whom?

    Maybe you are simply full of shit.

    Noah avoids addressing the deeper issues.

    Yeah, when I see shit brown eyes, that is all I need to know.

    Alright then. That's a wrap. It is a human right to be secure in your
    own home (if you have one), or vote for rent controls. Good work!

    But back to the subject at hand that Noah sidestepped, does Nick believe
    he has a human right to your house and property?

    Silly boi, how could he have such a *right*. Nobody every suggested
    any such thing. Mr brown eyes.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 10:01:47 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 12:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 9:10 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:51:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 11:11 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 11:04:52 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>
    On 5/10/2026 10:29 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 10:08:52 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> >>>>>>> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 7:41 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sat, 9 May 2026 23:28:27 -0700, dart200
    <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

    On 5/8/26 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, >>>>>>>>>>> it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".


    i've been thinking about this premise lot recently, and i now >>>>>>>>>> believe
    capitalism has largely not been providing a _home_ for many or >>>>>>>>>> even most
    people across the planet.

    it's largely provided /housing/ sure ... but not a _home_ >>>>>>>>>> where you are
    existentially safe from others taking it away from you. the >>>>>>>>>> wealthy
    largely have that safety given the means of survival that they >>>>>>>>>> own, that
    everyone else depends on. they do not experience the overall life >>>>>>>>>> pressure that such a persistent threat of homelessness puts on >>>>>>>>>> a person.

    i wonder what a world is like when everyone has that safety, >>>>>>>>>> always...

    A psych prof one time discussing reinforced behavior in animals >>>>>>>>> and
    humans, like an orgasm is one hell of a reinforcement for
    whatever you
    need to do to get one.-a In passing, he casually mentioned that the >>>>>>>>> biggest reinforcer for humans is money, but he declaimed to >>>>>>>>> discuss
    that further.-a That is something to think about though.-a What >>>>>>>>> behavior
    does money (a paycheck) reinforce in us?

    Wealth is subjective.

    Define the problem out of existence.-a However, I don't think you can >>>>>>> get that from what I said about reinforced behavior.

    You changed the topic from having a secure home to psychology of
    reinforced behavior. You did not define any human rights.

    Define it out of existence and change the subject.-a The double >>>>>>> whammy.

    List, cracker. I already posted the definition of basic human rights. >>>>>> Can't you read?

    Yes, in an attempt to divert the topic away from what you do not want >>>>> to discuss.

    The UN Declaration is all about human rights. Not psychology. Or
    subjective wealth.

    It is a little stiff for toilet paper, but it will do in a pinch.

    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration
    says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his
    weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Oh for God's sake, Nick! People do this all the time. Buy a house and
    keep the doors locked. Are you on something?


    It is not a human right. Where did you and Nick
    get the idea that wealth is a human right and that you should >>>>>>>> get the
    wealth of others?


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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 10:05:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 7:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 9:10 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:51:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>
    The UN Declaration is all about human rights. Not psychology. Or
    subjective wealth.

    It is a little stiff for toilet paper, but it will do in a pinch.

    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration >>>> says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his
    weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical.

    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary views.

    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.

    That is your opinion. Not necessarily a fact.

    For one thing, you assume that protecting property rights is actually necessary. Without protections, hordes would assemble to take such
    property away. It could be that people would remain about their
    business as they always were. Feeding kids would remain more
    important that taking your stuff away, so that somebody could in turn
    take it from me.

    Your view of society is brutal. And in view of certain segments,
    justified. The question then, as now, as always, is what to do about
    those segments?

    The era of flashing bumper stickers at each other is mostly past, yet
    here we are still doing it.

    You just flashed a bummer sticker at Wilson instead of a cogent response
    to defending your property with home security. You don't lock your doors
    at night? YMMV.
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  • From Wilson@Wilson@nowhere.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 13:11:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration >>>> says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his
    weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical.

    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary views.

    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.

    That is your opinion. Not necessarily a fact.

    Why do you insist on repeatedly sharing pointless pedantic observances
    like this?

    Of course it's my opinion.


    For one thing, you assume that protecting property rights is actually necessary. Without protections, hordes would assemble to take such
    property away. It could be that people would remain about their
    business as they always were. Feeding kids would remain more
    important that taking your stuff away, so that somebody could in turn
    take it from me.

    Your view of society is brutal. And in view of certain segments,
    justified. The question then, as now, as always, is what to do about
    those segments?

    El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele has done some very effective work
    in that area. (Please read to the end for my comments).

    "El Salvador recorded 2,398 homicides in 2019, the year he took office.
    By 2024, that number had fallen to 114, a murder rate of 1.9 per 100,000 people. Once widely considered the most violent country in the world, El Salvador is now among the safest in the region.

    To achieve this, Bukele implemented the Territorial Control Plan,
    declared a state of exception that suspended aspects of due process, and arrested more than 96,000 gang members.

    Many were imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a high-security facility equipped with cell phone jammers to prevent gang leaders from continuing to operate from inside the prison.

    - Improved security has led to an improved economy. Tourism has returned
    to the country in significant numbers. In 2019, El Salvador hosted approximately 1.7 million tourists.

    - According to El SalvadorrCOs Central Bank, overall poverty dropped by
    5.9 percent from 2023 to 2024, reducing the number of Salvadorans living
    in poverty by approximately 114,000 people in a single year.

    - Multidimensional poverty, which measures access to health care,
    education, and housing rather than just income, fell from 25.1 percent
    in 2023 to 21.1 percent in 2024.

    BukelerCOs approval rating has consistently exceeded 80 percent since
    taking office and reached 85 percent in a May 2025 poll. He won
    re-election in February 2024 with nearly 85 percent of the vote, and his
    party captured 54 of 60 legislative seats.

    He said that, prior to his reforms, El Salvador had been governed by two competing systems: a legitimate democratic government elected by the
    people and a parallel structure imposed by criminal organizations. He described this second system as rCLthe dictatorship of the gangs,rCY where power was enforced through violence rather than consent.

    He explained that, unlike a democracy, no one could choose or vote out
    this criminal authority. rCLWhoever doesnrCOt want to comply gets shot,rCY he said, calling it rCLthe true dictatorship that El Salvador lived through.rCY

    According to Bukele, these gangs exercised more territorial control than
    the official government, which he described as incapable, corrupt, and complicit in criminal activity. While the state collected taxes, many
    citizens avoided or were exempt from them. In contrast, gang extortion
    was unavoidable.

    He stated that roughly 85 percent of Salvadorans were forced to pay this extortion, effectively creating a parallel tax system that covered
    nearly the entire country. In his view, this amounted to a de facto
    government imposed by criminal groups.

    Bukele also described the failure of past enforcement efforts.
    Authorities would arrest gang members, but rCLthe next day 101 came out,rCY meaning arrests were quickly offset by releases and new recruits. He
    added that gangs retaliated by targeting police families, discouraging
    law enforcement from taking action.

    For decades, liberal criminologists argued that incarceration and the
    threat of punishment do not deter crime, and that only addressing root
    causes such as poverty, inequality, and lack of opportunity could reduce violence. El Salvador has disproved that argument in real time. BukelerCOs government achieved what no Western academic study ever could:
    near-certain arrest and lifetime imprisonment for gang activity, applied
    at scale across an entire country.

    The result was a 95 percent reduction in homicides in five years, in a
    nation that remained poor throughout. Crime collapsed because the
    rational calculation changed.

    With a near 100 percent chance of being caught and sent to a prison
    widely described as a living hell, criminals have decided that crime
    does not pay. El Salvador has proved that large-scale crime reduction is possible. It is a matter of political will."
    - Dr. Antonio Graceffo, PhD


    I don't like the idea of suspending rights or due process to fight crime
    but you can't deny the effectiveness of what he's done.

    El Salvador estimates that about 1.6% of their total population is
    currently in prison.

    Maybe this will lead to bad things in the future but for now the honest
    people of El Salvador are freer than they've been in decades.

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  • From Wilson@Wilson@nowhere.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 13:20:53 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 1:11 PM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

    Your view of society is brutal.-a And in view of certain segments,
    justified.-a The question then, as now, as always, is what to do about
    those segments?
    An alternative source on events in El Salvador:

    https://natlawreview.com/article/murder-capital-security-state-el-salvadors-transformation-under-president-bukele

    "For decades, gangs such as MS-13 and Barrio 18 dominated daily life
    across much of the country. Entire neighborhoods operated under gang
    rule. Residents paid routine extortion fees, businesses functioned at
    the pleasure of criminal groups, and violence was both pervasive and normalized. At its peak, the country recorded approximately 6,656
    homicides per year in a nation of just 6.3 million people, placing El
    Salvador among the deadliest countries on earth.

    The crisis reached a breaking point in March 2022, when gangs killed 87
    people over a three-day period, in some cases leaving bodies in public
    view. The killings marked a clear challenge to state authority and
    triggered a decisive response from the Bukele administration.

    The State of Exception

    In March 2022, President Bukele invoked a nationwide rCLstate of
    exception.rCY The decree dramatically expanded law enforcement powers, allowing authorities to arrest individuals suspected of gang membership
    or affiliation. It also suspended certain constitutional protections, including due process, as part of an emergency framework aimed at
    dismantling gang networks at scale.

    What followed was one of the most aggressive domestic security
    crackdowns in modern Latin American history. Originally authorized by El SalvadorrCOs Legislative Assembly for a period of 30 days, the nationwide rCLstate of exceptionrCY has since been renewed on a monthly basis more than 35 times.

    During the first six months alone, over 52,000 arrests were made. In the
    first three years of the policy, over 84,000 people have been detained
    based on suspected involvement in criminal gang activity.

    Many gang members are imprisoned in El SalvadorrCOs rCLCentro de
    Confinamiento del Terrorismo,rCY or CECOT, which is a high-security mega-prison at the center of President BukelerCOs national security
    crackdown strategy. Completed in February 2023, CECOT has capacity for
    40,000 prisoners and spans 23-hectares. Across all of its prisons, El
    Salvador now has one of the worldrCOs highest incarceration rates.

    Security Gains and Change

    These mass arrests have produced sweeping effects across Salvadoran
    society. According to Salvadoran officials, the countryrCOs homicide rate declined by over 98 percent between 2015 and 2024. The national homicide
    rate fell from 53.1 homicides per 100,000 people in 2018, the year
    before President Bukele took office, to 1.9 homicides per 100,000 people
    in 2024.

    The security improvements have also translated into positive economic
    and social impacts.

    Improved public safety has coincided with increased consumer confidence
    and a resurgence in tourism. According to the United Nations World
    Tourism Organization, El Salvador recorded a 35 percent increase in
    visitors in 2023 compared to 2019. This growth ranked El Salvador as the fourth fastest-growing tourism destination globally and the
    fastest-growing in the Americas.

    But El SalvadorrCOs aggressive crackdown on criminal gangs has also
    generated substantial criticism, both domestically and internationally.
    Human rights organizations, like Amnesty International, have repeatedly condemned the Bukele Administration for the continued renewal of the nationwide rCLstate of exception,rCY accusing the government of facilitating
    a systematic and widespread pattern of state abuse, including thousands
    of arbitrary detentions.

    President Bukele has publicly acknowledged that innocent individuals
    were detained during the implementation of the emergency measures. At
    the same time, he has defended the policyrCOs necessity and assured rCLwe
    are going to free 100 percent of the innocent people.rCY

    Power, Popularity, and the Road Ahead

    Despite concerns from human rights organizations, President Bukele and
    his crackdown on criminal gangs have remained highly popular throughout
    the country. His approval rating has consistently exceeded 80 percent
    since taking office in 2019 and reached 85 percent in a recent May 2025
    poll.

    That political support has translated into electoral dominance. In
    February 2024, President Bukele secured re-election with nearly 85
    percent of the vote. His political party simultaneously captured a
    54-seat supermajority in the 60-seat Legislative Assembly, consolidating legislative control and enabling the continued renewal of emergency powers.

    President BukelerCOs commanding re-election occurred despite longstanding constitutional prohibitions on consecutive presidential terms. In 2021,
    a reconstituted Supreme Court reinterpreted the Salvadoran Constitution
    to permit presidential re-election, clearing the legal path for
    President BukelerCOs successful 2024 campaign. In July 2025, the
    Legislative Assembly went further, formally abolishing presidential term limits altogether and authorizing indefinite re-election.

    This steady expansion of executive power has prompted a number of international organizations and commentators to characterize Bukele as a rCLdictator.rCY Public opinion data, however, presents a sharply different picture domestically. According to polling conducted by LPG Datos in May
    2025, only 1.4 percent of Salvadorans reported that the consolidation of executive power in a single individual was problematic.

    On the ground in El Salvador, public sentiment appears driven less by constitutional theory than by lived experience. Many Salvadorans
    describe a profound shift in daily life following the dismantling of
    gang control. In a country that is now largely free from gang presence, improved security has translated into new opportunities for business, employment, and community life."


    The article continues with some personal experiences of people who live
    there. Worth reading.

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  • From Wilson@Wilson@nowhere.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 13:27:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 10:29 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:41:24 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 1:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:20:47 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 9:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>
    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>>>>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom. >>>>>>>
    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So >>>>>>> what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even >>>>>> beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    Well you live in Canada, so there's always MAID.

    That's a comfort. A right to not die in massive suffering. That is
    worth something. Frame it a put it on the wall.

    It's one of the few individual rights Canada is interested in protecting
    these days. That it also aligns with their goal of reducing healthcare
    costs is probably just a coincidence.

    Everything is a conspiracy isn't it, wilson?

    Do you deny that Canada has greatly expanded access to MAID?

    Do you deny that Canada also has a goal of reducing healthcare costs?

    Like I said, it's probably just a coincidence.

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  • From Julian@julianlzb87@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 18:36:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 12/05/2026 18:11, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration >>>>> says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his >>>>> weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical.

    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary views.

    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.

    That is your opinion.-a Not necessarily a fact.

    Why do you insist on repeatedly sharing pointless pedantic observances
    like this?

    Of course it's my opinion.

    "That is your opinion" is the closest he gets to a fact.

    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156167586918104
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  • From Julian@julianlzb87@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 18:46:42 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 12/05/2026 18:20, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 1:11 PM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

    Your view of society is brutal.-a And in view of certain segments,
    justified.-a The question then, as now, as always, is what to do about
    those segments?
    An alternative source on events in El Salvador:

    https://natlawreview.com/article/murder-capital-security-state-el- salvadors-transformation-under-president-bukele

    "For decades, gangs such as MS-13 and Barrio 18 dominated daily life
    across much of the country. Entire neighborhoods operated under gang
    rule. Residents paid routine extortion fees, businesses functioned at
    the pleasure of criminal groups, and violence was both pervasive and normalized. At its peak, the country recorded approximately 6,656
    homicides per year in a nation of just 6.3 million people, placing El Salvador among the deadliest countries on earth.

    The crisis reached a breaking point in March 2022, when gangs killed 87 people over a three-day period, in some cases leaving bodies in public
    view. The killings marked a clear challenge to state authority and
    triggered a decisive response from the Bukele administration.

    The State of Exception

    In March 2022, President Bukele invoked a nationwide rCLstate of exception.rCY The decree dramatically expanded law enforcement powers, allowing authorities to arrest individuals suspected of gang membership
    or affiliation. It also suspended certain constitutional protections, including due process, as part of an emergency framework aimed at dismantling gang networks at scale.

    What followed was one of the most aggressive domestic security
    crackdowns in modern Latin American history. Originally authorized by El SalvadorrCOs Legislative Assembly for a period of 30 days, the nationwide rCLstate of exceptionrCY has since been renewed on a monthly basis more than 35 times.

    During the first six months alone, over 52,000 arrests were made. In the first three years of the policy, over 84,000 people have been detained
    based on suspected involvement in criminal gang activity.

    Many gang members are imprisoned in El SalvadorrCOs rCLCentro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo,rCY or CECOT, which is a high-security mega- prison at the center of President BukelerCOs national security crackdown strategy. Completed in February 2023, CECOT has capacity for 40,000 prisoners and spans 23-hectares. Across all of its prisons, El Salvador
    now has one of the worldrCOs highest incarceration rates.

    Security Gains and Change

    These mass arrests have produced sweeping effects across Salvadoran
    society. According to Salvadoran officials, the countryrCOs homicide rate declined by over 98 percent between 2015 and 2024. The national homicide rate fell from 53.1 homicides per 100,000 people in 2018, the year
    before President Bukele took office, to 1.9 homicides per 100,000 people
    in 2024.

    The security improvements have also translated into positive economic
    and social impacts.

    Improved public safety has coincided with increased consumer confidence
    and a resurgence in tourism. According to the United Nations World
    Tourism Organization, El Salvador recorded a 35 percent increase in
    visitors in 2023 compared to 2019. This growth ranked El Salvador as the fourth fastest-growing tourism destination globally and the fastest-
    growing in the Americas.

    But El SalvadorrCOs aggressive crackdown on criminal gangs has also generated substantial criticism, both domestically and internationally. Human rights organizations, like Amnesty International, have repeatedly condemned the Bukele Administration for the continued renewal of the nationwide rCLstate of exception,rCY accusing the government of facilitating a systematic and widespread pattern of state abuse, including thousands
    of arbitrary detentions.

    President Bukele has publicly acknowledged that innocent individuals
    were detained during the implementation of the emergency measures. At
    the same time, he has defended the policyrCOs necessity and assured rCLwe are going to free 100 percent of the innocent people.rCY

    Power, Popularity, and the Road Ahead

    Despite concerns from human rights organizations, President Bukele and
    his crackdown on criminal gangs have remained highly popular throughout
    the country. His approval rating has consistently exceeded 80 percent
    since taking office in 2019 and reached 85 percent in a recent May 2025 poll.

    That political support has translated into electoral dominance. In
    February 2024, President Bukele secured re-election with nearly 85
    percent of the vote. His political party simultaneously captured a 54-
    seat supermajority in the 60-seat Legislative Assembly, consolidating legislative control and enabling the continued renewal of emergency powers.

    President BukelerCOs commanding re-election occurred despite longstanding constitutional prohibitions on consecutive presidential terms. In 2021,
    a reconstituted Supreme Court reinterpreted the Salvadoran Constitution
    to permit presidential re-election, clearing the legal path for
    President BukelerCOs successful 2024 campaign. In July 2025, the
    Legislative Assembly went further, formally abolishing presidential term limits altogether and authorizing indefinite re-election.

    This steady expansion of executive power has prompted a number of international organizations and commentators to characterize Bukele as a rCLdictator.rCY Public opinion data, however, presents a sharply different picture domestically. According to polling conducted by LPG Datos in May 2025, only 1.4 percent of Salvadorans reported that the consolidation of executive power in a single individual was problematic.

    On the ground in El Salvador, public sentiment appears driven less by constitutional theory than by lived experience. Many Salvadorans
    describe a profound shift in daily life following the dismantling of
    gang control. In a country that is now largely free from gang presence, improved security has translated into new opportunities for business, employment, and community life."


    The article continues with some personal experiences of people who live there. Worth reading.

    It's quite simple really. If current laws are implemented correctly
    the bad guys soon get out of town.
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 11:05:58 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/26 5:36 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 9:10 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:51:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>
    The UN Declaration is all about human rights. Not psychology. Or
    subjective wealth.

    It is a little stiff for toilet paper, but it will do in a pinch.

    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN
    Declaration says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth
    distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his
    weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical. Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.


    triggered
    --
    hi, i'm nick!
    let's end war EfOa

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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 14:09:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Tue, 12 May 2026 13:11:07 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration >>>>> says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his >>>>> weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical.

    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary views.

    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.

    That is your opinion. Not necessarily a fact.

    Why do you insist on repeatedly sharing pointless pedantic observances
    like this?

    Of course it's my opinion.

    Because you present it as unchallengeable fact. It seems necessary to
    remind you, if to bring perspective to the conversation if for no
    other reason.


    For one thing, you assume that protecting property rights is actually
    necessary. Without protections, hordes would assemble to take such
    property away. It could be that people would remain about their
    business as they always were. Feeding kids would remain more
    important that taking your stuff away, so that somebody could in turn
    take it from me.

    Your view of society is brutal. And in view of certain segments,
    justified. The question then, as now, as always, is what to do about
    those segments?

    El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele has done some very effective work
    in that area. (Please read to the end for my comments).

    "El Salvador recorded 2,398 homicides in 2019, the year he took office.
    By 2024, that number had fallen to 114, a murder rate of 1.9 per 100,000 >people. Once widely considered the most violent country in the world, El >Salvador is now among the safest in the region.

    To achieve this, Bukele implemented the Territorial Control Plan,
    declared a state of exception that suspended aspects of due process, and >arrested more than 96,000 gang members.

    Many were imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a >high-security facility equipped with cell phone jammers to prevent gang >leaders from continuing to operate from inside the prison.

    - Improved security has led to an improved economy. Tourism has returned
    to the country in significant numbers. In 2019, El Salvador hosted >approximately 1.7 million tourists.

    - According to El SalvadorAs Central Bank, overall poverty dropped by
    5.9 percent from 2023 to 2024, reducing the number of Salvadorans living
    in poverty by approximately 114,000 people in a single year.

    - Multidimensional poverty, which measures access to health care,
    education, and housing rather than just income, fell from 25.1 percent
    in 2023 to 21.1 percent in 2024.

    BukeleAs approval rating has consistently exceeded 80 percent since
    taking office and reached 85 percent in a May 2025 poll. He won
    re-election in February 2024 with nearly 85 percent of the vote, and his >party captured 54 of 60 legislative seats.

    He said that, prior to his reforms, El Salvador had been governed by two >competing systems: a legitimate democratic government elected by the
    people and a parallel structure imposed by criminal organizations. He >described this second system as othe dictatorship of the gangs,o where
    power was enforced through violence rather than consent.

    He explained that, unlike a democracy, no one could choose or vote out
    this criminal authority. oWhoever doesnAt want to comply gets shot,o he >said, calling it othe true dictatorship that El Salvador lived through.o

    According to Bukele, these gangs exercised more territorial control than
    the official government, which he described as incapable, corrupt, and >complicit in criminal activity. While the state collected taxes, many >citizens avoided or were exempt from them. In contrast, gang extortion
    was unavoidable.

    He stated that roughly 85 percent of Salvadorans were forced to pay this >extortion, effectively creating a parallel tax system that covered
    nearly the entire country. In his view, this amounted to a de facto >government imposed by criminal groups.

    Bukele also described the failure of past enforcement efforts.
    Authorities would arrest gang members, but othe next day 101 came out,o >meaning arrests were quickly offset by releases and new recruits. He
    added that gangs retaliated by targeting police families, discouraging
    law enforcement from taking action.

    For decades, liberal criminologists argued that incarceration and the
    threat of punishment do not deter crime, and that only addressing root >causes such as poverty, inequality, and lack of opportunity could reduce >violence. El Salvador has disproved that argument in real time. BukeleAs >government achieved what no Western academic study ever could:
    near-certain arrest and lifetime imprisonment for gang activity, applied
    at scale across an entire country.

    The result was a 95 percent reduction in homicides in five years, in a >nation that remained poor throughout. Crime collapsed because the
    rational calculation changed.

    With a near 100 percent chance of being caught and sent to a prison
    widely described as a living hell, criminals have decided that crime
    does not pay. El Salvador has proved that large-scale crime reduction is >possible. It is a matter of political will."
    - Dr. Antonio Graceffo, PhD


    I don't like the idea of suspending rights or due process to fight crime
    but you can't deny the effectiveness of what he's done.

    El Salvador estimates that about 1.6% of their total population is
    currently in prison.

    Maybe this will lead to bad things in the future but for now the honest >people of El Salvador are freer than they've been in decades.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 11:28:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 11:09 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 13:11:07 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration >>>>>> says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution. >>>>>>
    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his >>>>>> weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical. >>>
    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary views.

    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.

    That is your opinion. Not necessarily a fact.

    Why do you insist on repeatedly sharing pointless pedantic observances
    like this?

    Of course it's my opinion.

    Because you present it as unchallengeable fact.

    In your opinion.

    It seems necessary to remind you, if to bring perspective to the
    conversation if for no other reason.>
    Not necessary.

    "The opinions expressed by informants are their own and do not
    necessarily represent the views of all Usenet boards." - Tang

    For one thing, you assume that protecting property rights is
    actually
    necessary. Without protections, hordes would assemble to take such
    property away. It could be that people would remain about their
    business as they always were. Feeding kids would remain more
    important that taking your stuff away, so that somebody could in turn
    take it from me.

    Your view of society is brutal. And in view of certain segments,
    justified. The question then, as now, as always, is what to do about
    those segments?

    El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele has done some very effective work
    in that area. (Please read to the end for my comments).

    "El Salvador recorded 2,398 homicides in 2019, the year he took office.
    By 2024, that number had fallen to 114, a murder rate of 1.9 per 100,000
    people. Once widely considered the most violent country in the world, El
    Salvador is now among the safest in the region.

    To achieve this, Bukele implemented the Territorial Control Plan,
    declared a state of exception that suspended aspects of due process, and
    arrested more than 96,000 gang members.

    Many were imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a
    high-security facility equipped with cell phone jammers to prevent gang
    leaders from continuing to operate from inside the prison.

    - Improved security has led to an improved economy. Tourism has returned
    to the country in significant numbers. In 2019, El Salvador hosted
    approximately 1.7 million tourists.

    - According to El SalvadorrCOs Central Bank, overall poverty dropped by
    5.9 percent from 2023 to 2024, reducing the number of Salvadorans living
    in poverty by approximately 114,000 people in a single year.

    - Multidimensional poverty, which measures access to health care,
    education, and housing rather than just income, fell from 25.1 percent
    in 2023 to 21.1 percent in 2024.

    BukelerCOs approval rating has consistently exceeded 80 percent since
    taking office and reached 85 percent in a May 2025 poll. He won
    re-election in February 2024 with nearly 85 percent of the vote, and his
    party captured 54 of 60 legislative seats.

    He said that, prior to his reforms, El Salvador had been governed by two
    competing systems: a legitimate democratic government elected by the
    people and a parallel structure imposed by criminal organizations. He
    described this second system as rCLthe dictatorship of the gangs,rCY where >> power was enforced through violence rather than consent.

    He explained that, unlike a democracy, no one could choose or vote out
    this criminal authority. rCLWhoever doesnrCOt want to comply gets shot,rCY he
    said, calling it rCLthe true dictatorship that El Salvador lived through.rCY >>
    According to Bukele, these gangs exercised more territorial control than
    the official government, which he described as incapable, corrupt, and
    complicit in criminal activity. While the state collected taxes, many
    citizens avoided or were exempt from them. In contrast, gang extortion
    was unavoidable.

    He stated that roughly 85 percent of Salvadorans were forced to pay this
    extortion, effectively creating a parallel tax system that covered
    nearly the entire country. In his view, this amounted to a de facto
    government imposed by criminal groups.

    Bukele also described the failure of past enforcement efforts.
    Authorities would arrest gang members, but rCLthe next day 101 came out,rCY >> meaning arrests were quickly offset by releases and new recruits. He
    added that gangs retaliated by targeting police families, discouraging
    law enforcement from taking action.

    For decades, liberal criminologists argued that incarceration and the
    threat of punishment do not deter crime, and that only addressing root
    causes such as poverty, inequality, and lack of opportunity could reduce
    violence. El Salvador has disproved that argument in real time. BukelerCOs >> government achieved what no Western academic study ever could:
    near-certain arrest and lifetime imprisonment for gang activity, applied
    at scale across an entire country.

    The result was a 95 percent reduction in homicides in five years, in a
    nation that remained poor throughout. Crime collapsed because the
    rational calculation changed.

    With a near 100 percent chance of being caught and sent to a prison
    widely described as a living hell, criminals have decided that crime
    does not pay. El Salvador has proved that large-scale crime reduction is
    possible. It is a matter of political will."
    - Dr. Antonio Graceffo, PhD


    I don't like the idea of suspending rights or due process to fight crime
    but you can't deny the effectiveness of what he's done.

    El Salvador estimates that about 1.6% of their total population is
    currently in prison.

    Maybe this will lead to bad things in the future but for now the honest
    people of El Salvador are freer than they've been in decades.

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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 14:29:39 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Tue, 12 May 2026 18:46:42 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 12/05/2026 18:20, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 1:11 PM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:

    Your view of society is brutal.a And in view of certain segments,
    justified.a The question then, as now, as always, is what to do about
    those segments?
    An alternative source on events in El Salvador:

    https://natlawreview.com/article/murder-capital-security-state-el-
    salvadors-transformation-under-president-bukele

    "For decades, gangs such as MS-13 and Barrio 18 dominated daily life
    across much of the country. Entire neighborhoods operated under gang
    rule. Residents paid routine extortion fees, businesses functioned at
    the pleasure of criminal groups, and violence was both pervasive and
    normalized. At its peak, the country recorded approximately 6,656
    homicides per year in a nation of just 6.3 million people, placing El
    Salvador among the deadliest countries on earth.

    The crisis reached a breaking point in March 2022, when gangs killed 87
    people over a three-day period, in some cases leaving bodies in public
    view. The killings marked a clear challenge to state authority and
    triggered a decisive response from the Bukele administration.

    The State of Exception

    In March 2022, President Bukele invoked a nationwide ostate of
    exception.o The decree dramatically expanded law enforcement powers,
    allowing authorities to arrest individuals suspected of gang membership
    or affiliation. It also suspended certain constitutional protections,
    including due process, as part of an emergency framework aimed at
    dismantling gang networks at scale.

    What followed was one of the most aggressive domestic security
    crackdowns in modern Latin American history. Originally authorized by El
    SalvadorAs Legislative Assembly for a period of 30 days, the nationwide
    ostate of exceptiono has since been renewed on a monthly basis more than
    35 times.

    During the first six months alone, over 52,000 arrests were made. In the
    first three years of the policy, over 84,000 people have been detained
    based on suspected involvement in criminal gang activity.

    Many gang members are imprisoned in El SalvadorAs oCentro de
    Confinamiento del Terrorismo,o or CECOT, which is a high-security mega-
    prison at the center of President BukeleAs national security crackdown
    strategy. Completed in February 2023, CECOT has capacity for 40,000
    prisoners and spans 23-hectares. Across all of its prisons, El Salvador
    now has one of the worldAs highest incarceration rates.

    Security Gains and Change

    These mass arrests have produced sweeping effects across Salvadoran
    society. According to Salvadoran officials, the countryAs homicide rate
    declined by over 98 percent between 2015 and 2024. The national homicide
    rate fell from 53.1 homicides per 100,000 people in 2018, the year
    before President Bukele took office, to 1.9 homicides per 100,000 people
    in 2024.

    The security improvements have also translated into positive economic
    and social impacts.

    Improved public safety has coincided with increased consumer confidence
    and a resurgence in tourism. According to the United Nations World
    Tourism Organization, El Salvador recorded a 35 percent increase in
    visitors in 2023 compared to 2019. This growth ranked El Salvador as the
    fourth fastest-growing tourism destination globally and the fastest-
    growing in the Americas.

    But El SalvadorAs aggressive crackdown on criminal gangs has also
    generated substantial criticism, both domestically and internationally.
    Human rights organizations, like Amnesty International, have repeatedly
    condemned the Bukele Administration for the continued renewal of the
    nationwide ostate of exception,o accusing the government of facilitating
    a systematic and widespread pattern of state abuse, including thousands
    of arbitrary detentions.

    President Bukele has publicly acknowledged that innocent individuals
    were detained during the implementation of the emergency measures. At
    the same time, he has defended the policyAs necessity and assured owe
    are going to free 100 percent of the innocent people.o

    Power, Popularity, and the Road Ahead

    Despite concerns from human rights organizations, President Bukele and
    his crackdown on criminal gangs have remained highly popular throughout
    the country. His approval rating has consistently exceeded 80 percent
    since taking office in 2019 and reached 85 percent in a recent May 2025
    poll.

    That political support has translated into electoral dominance. In
    February 2024, President Bukele secured re-election with nearly 85
    percent of the vote. His political party simultaneously captured a 54-
    seat supermajority in the 60-seat Legislative Assembly, consolidating
    legislative control and enabling the continued renewal of emergency powers. >>
    President BukeleAs commanding re-election occurred despite longstanding
    constitutional prohibitions on consecutive presidential terms. In 2021,
    a reconstituted Supreme Court reinterpreted the Salvadoran Constitution
    to permit presidential re-election, clearing the legal path for
    President BukeleAs successful 2024 campaign. In July 2025, the
    Legislative Assembly went further, formally abolishing presidential term
    limits altogether and authorizing indefinite re-election.

    This steady expansion of executive power has prompted a number of
    international organizations and commentators to characterize Bukele as a
    odictator.o Public opinion data, however, presents a sharply different
    picture domestically. According to polling conducted by LPG Datos in May
    2025, only 1.4 percent of Salvadorans reported that the consolidation of
    executive power in a single individual was problematic.

    On the ground in El Salvador, public sentiment appears driven less by
    constitutional theory than by lived experience. Many Salvadorans
    describe a profound shift in daily life following the dismantling of
    gang control. In a country that is now largely free from gang presence,
    improved security has translated into new opportunities for business,
    employment, and community life."


    The article continues with some personal experiences of people who live
    there. Worth reading.

    It's quite simple really. If current laws are implemented correctly
    the bad guys soon get out of town.

    Your conclusion seems to be that there need be no concern for putting
    innocent people in jail. The only goal is to put as many in jail as
    possible as quickly as possible. That makes the bad guys go away.

    There should be no concern for elected leaders working towards
    dictatorship. We trust the dictator, we do not trust our neighbors.

    There should be no concern that opinion polls and election results
    seem to support the dictator. We believe them to be accurate because
    the dictator says so.

    Is that what you think, wilson?
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 14:30:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Tue, 12 May 2026 18:36:25 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 12/05/2026 18:11, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration >>>>>> says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution. >>>>>>
    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his >>>>>> weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical. >>>
    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary views.

    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.

    That is your opinion.a Not necessarily a fact.

    Why do you insist on repeatedly sharing pointless pedantic observances
    like this?

    Of course it's my opinion.

    "That is your opinion" is the closest he gets to a fact.

    asshole.

    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156167586918104
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 14:33:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Tue, 12 May 2026 13:27:27 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 10:29 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:41:24 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 1:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:20:47 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 9:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>> wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>>
    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom. >>>>>>>>
    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So >>>>>>>> what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even >>>>>>> beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    Well you live in Canada, so there's always MAID.

    That's a comfort. A right to not die in massive suffering. That is
    worth something. Frame it a put it on the wall.

    It's one of the few individual rights Canada is interested in protecting >>> these days. That it also aligns with their goal of reducing healthcare
    costs is probably just a coincidence.

    Everything is a conspiracy isn't it, wilson?

    Do you deny that Canada has greatly expanded access to MAID?

    Do you deny that Canada also has a goal of reducing healthcare costs?

    Like I said, it's probably just a coincidence.

    Everything is a conspiracy, isn't it wilson?
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 11:33:42 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/11/2026 8:22 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 19:47:01 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 10:31 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 09:44:38 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 9:11 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:21:34 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>
    On 5/10/2026 6:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>>> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom. >>>>>>>>>
    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So >>>>>>>>> what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even >>>>>>>> beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    In that case, you might try starting up a neighborhood watch program. >>>>>
    Lucky for me I no longer live in a place where that might be needed. >>>>>
    In most normal neighborhoods, neighbors look after each other; in others >>>> you are just on your own. YMMV.

    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.

    I'm not sure what happened but we were talking about this:


    Nice try. I don't need to go back very far to find this;:
    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.

    Yup, you said that, and I wondered where that came from.

    You are guilty as charged.

    Nick was asking if it was a human right to have a home that was secure
    that nobody could take away and I replied that your body/mind is your
    home and your human right and if you want a house, buy one and make it
    secure with a neighborhood watch and a locked door. That is his right.

    You repeated your dogma once again. Do you imagine you convinced
    anybody this time?

    So, it's not a wrap.

    Alright, I repeat:

    Nick was asking if it was a human right to have a home that was secure
    that nobody could take away and I replied that your body/mind is your
    home and your human right and if you want a house, buy one and make it
    secure with a neighborhood watch and a locked door.

    That is his right. Where's Nick?




    So, that's a wrap.


    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    not hiding behind locked doors.

    You have a right to be secure in your own home. Where's Nick? It's his
    thread.

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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 11:38:05 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 10:27 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:29 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:41:24 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 1:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:20:47 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 9:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>> wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> >>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>>
    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it >>>>>>>>>> might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to >>>>>>>>> be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in >>>>>>>>> Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right >>>>>>>>> to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and >>>>>>>>> freedom.

    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it.-a So >>>>>>>> what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are >>>>>>> even
    beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert.-a In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    Well you live in Canada, so there's always MAID.

    That's a comfort.-a A right to not die in massive suffering.-a That is >>>> worth something.-a Frame it a put it on the wall.

    It's one of the few individual rights Canada is interested in protecting >>> these days. That it also aligns with their goal of reducing healthcare
    costs is probably just a coincidence.

    Everything is a conspiracy isn't it, wilson?

    Do you deny that Canada has greatly expanded access to MAID?

    Do you deny that Canada also has a goal of reducing healthcare costs?

    Like I said, it's probably just a coincidence.

    So, it's not about Nick finding a home that is secure.

    It's about Noah and Canada.

    Nobody cares about Nick's secure home, or Nick's lack of a home. Just
    forget about Nick's call for help. Nick lives in California an he is on Cal-Med. Let not get off-topic.
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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 11:41:46 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 5:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 1:22 PM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 6:31 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:43:17 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:55 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 10:37:36 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it
    might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Is Nick thinking he has a human right to your house and property
    to make
    himself secure and that nobody can take your house away from him?

    Or, is he thinking he has a human right to an apartment on the
    government dime?

    Maybe he's thinking he has a right to be provided for.

    By whom?

    Maybe you are simply full of shit.

    Noah avoids addressing the deeper issues.

    Yeah, when I see shit brown eyes, that is all I need to know.

    Alright then. That's a wrap. It is a human right to be secure in your
    own home (if you have one), or vote for rent controls. Good work!

    But back to the subject at hand that Noah sidestepped, does Nick believe
    he has a human right to your house and property?

    Nick said all the property should divided up into 2 hectares for each
    person to cultivate for food to share with everyone in the collective
    with no means of tender, just consensus that is transparent and free
    from boomers.
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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 11:44:08 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 7:31 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:43:21 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 1:22 PM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 6:31 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:43:17 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:55 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 10:37:36 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it >>>>>>>> might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Is Nick thinking he has a human right to your house and property to >>>>>>> make
    himself secure and that nobody can take your house away from him? >>>>>>>
    Or, is he thinking he has a human right to an apartment on the
    government dime?

    Maybe he's thinking he has a right to be provided for.

    By whom?

    Maybe you are simply full of shit.

    Noah avoids addressing the deeper issues.

    Yeah, when I see shit brown eyes, that is all I need to know.
    >
    Alright then. That's a wrap. It is a human right to be secure in your
    own home (if you have one), or vote for rent controls. Good work!

    But back to the subject at hand that Noah sidestepped, does Nick believe
    he has a human right to your house and property?

    Silly boi, how could he have such a *right*. Nobody every suggested
    any such thing. Mr brown eyes.

    Nick wants to know Julian's net worth and Nick says you have no right to
    be living on native land. Nick said "get out you fucking boomer asshole!"
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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 14:48:51 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Tue, 12 May 2026 11:33:42 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 8:22 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 19:47:01 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 10:31 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 09:44:38 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>
    On 5/10/2026 9:11 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:21:34 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>
    On 5/10/2026 6:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>>>> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So >>>>>>>>>> what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even >>>>>>>>> beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    In that case, you might try starting up a neighborhood watch program. >>>>>>
    Lucky for me I no longer live in a place where that might be needed. >>>>>>
    In most normal neighborhoods, neighbors look after each other; in others >>>>> you are just on your own. YMMV.

    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.

    I'm not sure what happened but we were talking about this:


    Nice try. I don't need to go back very far to find this;:
    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.

    Yup, you said that, and I wondered where that came from.

    You are guilty as charged.

    Nick was asking if it was a human right to have a home that was secure
    that nobody could take away and I replied that your body/mind is your
    home and your human right and if you want a house, buy one and make it
    secure with a neighborhood watch and a locked door. That is his right.

    You repeated your dogma once again. Do you imagine you convinced
    anybody this time?

    So, it's not a wrap.

    Alright, I repeat:

    Nick was asking if it was a human right to have a home that was secure
    that nobody could take away and I replied that your body/mind is your
    home and your human right and if you want a house, buy one and make it
    secure with a neighborhood watch and a locked door.

    That is his right. Where's Nick?

    One more time please. Special request. You are so cute when you
    fluster.




    So, that's a wrap.


    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    not hiding behind locked doors.

    You have a right to be secure in your own home. Where's Nick? It's his
    thread.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Julian@julianlzb87@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 19:58:46 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 12/05/2026 18:36, Julian wrote:
    On 12/05/2026 18:11, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN
    Declaration
    says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution. >>>>>>
    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his >>>>>> weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical. >>>
    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary views.

    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.

    That is your opinion.-a Not necessarily a fact.

    Why do you insist on repeatedly sharing pointless pedantic observances
    like this?

    Of course it's my opinion.

    "That is your opinion" is the closest he gets to a fact.

    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156167586918104

    And there's the equally ridiculous follow up to people's
    opinions "That/Which does not mean..." refuting a view held
    only in his own head... not to mention the contempt shown
    to subscribers by being incapable of resisting the need to
    explain everything to everybody.


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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 16:49:51 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Tue, 12 May 2026 19:58:46 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 12/05/2026 18:36, Julian wrote:
    On 12/05/2026 18:11, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN
    Declaration
    says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution. >>>>>>>
    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his >>>>>>> weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated. >>>>>>
    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical. >>>>
    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary views. >>>>
    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.

    That is your opinion.a Not necessarily a fact.

    Why do you insist on repeatedly sharing pointless pedantic observances
    like this?

    Of course it's my opinion.

    "That is your opinion" is the closest he gets to a fact.

    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156167586918104

    And there's the equally ridiculous follow up to people's
    opinions "That/Which does not mean..." refuting a view held
    only in his own head... not to mention the contempt shown
    to subscribers by being incapable of resisting the need to
    explain everything to everybody.

    That does not mean that people don't sometimes need hidden exceptions
    pointed out even you might rather they not be.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Wilson@Wilson@nowhere.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 17:04:03 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 2:09 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 13:11:07 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration >>>>>> says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution. >>>>>>
    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his >>>>>> weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical. >>>
    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary views.

    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.

    That is your opinion. Not necessarily a fact.

    Why do you insist on repeatedly sharing pointless pedantic observances
    like this?

    Of course it's my opinion.

    Because you present it as unchallengeable fact. It seems necessary to
    remind you, if to bring perspective to the conversation if for no
    other reason.

    It looks like you're presenting *that* as an unchangeable fact.

    Good thing any reasonable person knows it's just your opinion.

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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 14:04:26 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 11:48 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 11:33:42 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 8:22 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 19:47:01 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 10:31 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 09:44:38 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>
    On 5/10/2026 9:11 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:21:34 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>
    On 5/10/2026 6:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>>>>> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So >>>>>>>>>>> what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even
    beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my >>>>>>>>> neighborhood for anybody.

    In that case, you might try starting up a neighborhood watch program. >>>>>>>
    Lucky for me I no longer live in a place where that might be needed. >>>>>>>
    In most normal neighborhoods, neighbors look after each other; in others >>>>>> you are just on your own. YMMV.

    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.

    I'm not sure what happened but we were talking about this:


    Nice try. I don't need to go back very far to find this;:
    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.

    Yup, you said that, and I wondered where that came from.

    You are guilty as charged.

    Nick was asking if it was a human right to have a home that was secure >>>> that nobody could take away and I replied that your body/mind is your
    home and your human right and if you want a house, buy one and make it >>>> secure with a neighborhood watch and a locked door. That is his right.

    You repeated your dogma once again. Do you imagine you convinced
    anybody this time?

    So, it's not a wrap.

    Alright, I repeat:

    Nick was asking if it was a human right to have a home that was secure
    that nobody could take away and I replied that your body/mind is your
    home and your human right and if you want a house, buy one and make it
    secure with a neighborhood watch and a locked door.

    That is his right. Where's Nick?

    One more time please. Special request. You are so cute when you
    fluster.

    It's not about me, now it's about you.

    Nick is the poor guy with baby asking all the existential questions.

    Apparently, you don't care. You are making a mockery out Nick's query.

    Obviously, it was a cry for help. You don't even care enough to have a
    normal dialog. Where's Nick?

    Let's be transparent.



    So, that's a wrap.


    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom. >>>>>
    not hiding behind locked doors.

    You have a right to be secure in your own home. Where's Nick? It's his >>>> thread.

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  • From Wilson@Wilson@nowhere.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 17:05:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 2:05 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/12/26 5:36 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 9:10 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:51:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>
    The UN Declaration is all about human rights. Not psychology. Or
    subjective wealth.

    It is a little stiff for toilet paper, but it will do in a pinch.

    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN
    Declaration says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth
    distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with
    his weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and
    ethical. Nick's view that personal property rights should not be
    protected however, is not.


    triggered


    But accurate!
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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 14:27:43 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 11:30 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 18:36:25 +0100, Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 12/05/2026 18:11, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration >>>>>>> says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution. >>>>>>>
    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his >>>>>>> weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated. >>>>>>
    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical. >>>>
    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary views. >>>>
    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.

    That is your opinion.-a Not necessarily a fact.

    Why do you insist on repeatedly sharing pointless pedantic observances
    like this?

    Of course it's my opinion.

    "That is your opinion" is the closest he gets to a fact.

    asshole.

    That should be a wrap up to end this discussion.
    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156167586918104

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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 14:33:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 11:05 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/12/26 5:36 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 9:10 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:51:08 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>
    The UN Declaration is all about human rights. Not psychology. Or
    subjective wealth.

    It is a little stiff for toilet paper, but it will do in a pinch.

    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN
    Declaration says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth
    distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with
    his weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated.

    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and
    ethical. Nick's view that personal property rights should not be
    protected however, is not.


    triggered

    Don't get trigger happy with Wilson. His property is probably secured.
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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 18:29:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Tue, 12 May 2026 17:04:03 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 2:09 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 13:11:07 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration >>>>>>> says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution. >>>>>>>
    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his >>>>>>> weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated. >>>>>>
    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical. >>>>
    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary views. >>>>
    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.

    That is your opinion. Not necessarily a fact.

    Why do you insist on repeatedly sharing pointless pedantic observances
    like this?

    Of course it's my opinion.

    Because you present it as unchallengeable fact. It seems necessary to
    remind you, if to bring perspective to the conversation if for no
    other reason.

    It looks like you're presenting *that* as an unchangeable fact.

    Good thing any reasonable person knows it's just your opinion.

    So you assert. I don't think any reasonable person will necessarily
    agree with you.

    It is one of your tricks. To assume that "any reasonable person
    knows", "the people have voted, therefore they agree with me". You
    can now say, that any reasonable person would know I don't do that,
    but t'aint so. I do my best to keep you honest, but you do tend to
    leak around the edges.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 18:31:03 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Tue, 12 May 2026 14:04:26 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 11:48 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 11:33:42 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 8:22 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 19:47:01 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>
    On 5/11/2026 10:31 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 09:44:38 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>
    On 5/10/2026 9:11 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:21:34 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>
    On 5/10/2026 6:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>>>>>> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So >>>>>>>>>>>> what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even
    beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my >>>>>>>>>> neighborhood for anybody.

    In that case, you might try starting up a neighborhood watch program. >>>>>>>>
    Lucky for me I no longer live in a place where that might be needed. >>>>>>>>
    In most normal neighborhoods, neighbors look after each other; in others
    you are just on your own. YMMV.

    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.

    I'm not sure what happened but we were talking about this:


    Nice try. I don't need to go back very far to find this;:
    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.

    Yup, you said that, and I wondered where that came from.

    You are guilty as charged.

    Nick was asking if it was a human right to have a home that was secure >>>>> that nobody could take away and I replied that your body/mind is your >>>>> home and your human right and if you want a house, buy one and make it >>>>> secure with a neighborhood watch and a locked door. That is his right. >>>>
    You repeated your dogma once again. Do you imagine you convinced
    anybody this time?

    So, it's not a wrap.

    Alright, I repeat:

    Nick was asking if it was a human right to have a home that was secure
    that nobody could take away and I replied that your body/mind is your
    home and your human right and if you want a house, buy one and make it
    secure with a neighborhood watch and a locked door.

    That is his right. Where's Nick?

    One more time please. Special request. You are so cute when you
    fluster.

    It's not about me, now it's about you.

    Nick is the poor guy with baby asking all the existential questions.

    Apparently, you don't care. You are making a mockery out Nick's query.

    Obviously, it was a cry for help. You don't even care enough to have a >normal dialog. Where's Nick?

    You are so cruel. All I wanted was to hear you repeat your stuff one
    more time.

    Let's be transparent.



    So, that's a wrap.


    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>>>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom. >>>>>>
    not hiding behind locked doors.

    You have a right to be secure in your own home. Where's Nick? It's his >>>>> thread.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 18:23:55 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 3:31 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 14:04:26 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 11:48 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 11:33:42 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 8:22 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 19:47:01 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>
    On 5/11/2026 10:31 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 09:44:38 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>
    On 5/10/2026 9:11 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:21:34 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 6:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>>>>>>> wrote:

    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away???


    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So
    what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even
    beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my >>>>>>>>>>> neighborhood for anybody.

    In that case, you might try starting up a neighborhood watch program.

    Lucky for me I no longer live in a place where that might be needed. >>>>>>>>>
    In most normal neighborhoods, neighbors look after each other; in others
    you are just on your own. YMMV.

    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.

    I'm not sure what happened but we were talking about this:


    Nice try. I don't need to go back very far to find this;:
    Some people feel more secure just being behind a locked door.

    Yup, you said that, and I wondered where that came from.

    You are guilty as charged.

    Nick was asking if it was a human right to have a home that was secure >>>>>> that nobody could take away and I replied that your body/mind is your >>>>>> home and your human right and if you want a house, buy one and make it >>>>>> secure with a neighborhood watch and a locked door. That is his right. >>>>>
    You repeated your dogma once again. Do you imagine you convinced
    anybody this time?

    So, it's not a wrap.

    Alright, I repeat:

    Nick was asking if it was a human right to have a home that was secure >>>> that nobody could take away and I replied that your body/mind is your
    home and your human right and if you want a house, buy one and make it >>>> secure with a neighborhood watch and a locked door.

    That is his right. Where's Nick?

    One more time please. Special request. You are so cute when you
    fluster.

    It's not about me, now it's about you.

    Nick is the poor guy with baby asking all the existential questions.

    Apparently, you don't care. You are making a mockery out Nick's query.

    Obviously, it was a cry for help. You don't even care enough to have a
    normal dialog. Where's Nick?

    You are so cruel. All I wanted was to hear you repeat your stuff one
    more time.

    It's not about me - it's Nick's thread.

    He wants to know how to secure a home for himself and his baby and I
    presume, his wife. It was an existential question because he already has
    an apartment with a heat pump.

    He just wants to now if he has a human right to an apartment with no
    rent control, because he might get kicked out and have to go live with Dad.

    If you can't help Nick, you probably don't care, because you've got cozy
    digs up in Canada, with no worries. Not everyone has a secure home where
    they don't even need to lock doors at night. Nice!



    Let's be transparent.



    So, that's a wrap.


    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life >>>>>>>> ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom. >>>>>>>
    not hiding behind locked doors.

    You have a right to be secure in your own home. Where's Nick? It's his >>>>>> thread.

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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Tue May 12 18:35:26 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 3:29 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 17:04:03 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 2:09 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 13:11:07 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN Declaration >>>>>>>> says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth distribution. >>>>>>>>
    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it with his >>>>>>>> weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated. >>>>>>>
    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and ethical. >>>>>
    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary views. >>>>>
    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected
    however, is not.

    That is your opinion. Not necessarily a fact.

    Why do you insist on repeatedly sharing pointless pedantic observances >>>> like this?

    Of course it's my opinion.

    Because you present it as unchallengeable fact. It seems necessary to
    remind you, if to bring perspective to the conversation if for no
    other reason.

    It looks like you're presenting *that* as an unchangeable fact.

    Good thing any reasonable person knows it's just your opinion.

    So you assert. I don't think any reasonable person will necessarily
    agree with you.

    Any sensible person reading this would agree it's opinion. That kind of
    goes without saying.

    It is one of your tricks.

    Having said that, it is not a trick. It's supposed to be a normal conversation, but you're sounding more and more the extremist, based on
    the consensus of the group.

    To assume that "any reasonable person> knows", "the people have
    voted, therefore they agree with me". You
    can now say, that any reasonable person would know I don't do that,
    but t'aint so. I do my best to keep you honest, but you do tend to
    leak around the edges.

    Wait! What?
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  • From Wilson@Wilson@nowhere.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Thu May 14 10:21:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 9:35 PM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:29 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 17:04:03 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:09 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 13:11:07 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>> wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN
    Declaration
    says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth
    distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it >>>>>>>>> with his
    weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated. >>>>>>>>
    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and
    ethical.

    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary
    views.

    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected >>>>>>> however, is not.

    That is your opinion.-a Not necessarily a fact.

    Why do you insist on repeatedly sharing pointless pedantic observances >>>>> like this?

    Of course it's my opinion.

    Because you present it as unchallengeable fact.-a It seems necessary to >>>> remind you, if to bring perspective to the conversation if for no
    other reason.

    It looks like you're presenting *that* as an unchangeable fact.

    Good thing any reasonable person knows it's just your opinion.

    So you assert.-a I don't think any reasonable person will necessarily
    agree with you.

    Any sensible person reading this would agree it's opinion. That kind of
    goes without saying.

    It is one of your tricks.

    Having said that, it is not a trick. It's supposed to be a normal conversation, but you're sounding more and more the extremist, based on
    the consensus of the group.

    To assume that "any reasonable person> knows", "the people have
    voted, therefore they agree with me".-a You
    can now say, that any reasonable person would know I don't do that,
    but t'aint so.-a I do my best to keep you honest, but you do tend to
    leak around the edges.

    Wait! What?

    Noah tends towards the incomprehensible when the conversation goes in directions he can't deal with.

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  • From Wilson@Wilson@nowhere.invalid to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Thu May 14 10:45:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/12/2026 2:33 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 13:27:27 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:29 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:41:24 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 1:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:20:47 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 9:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>>> wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>>>
    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom. >>>>>>>>>
    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So >>>>>>>>> what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even >>>>>>>> beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    Well you live in Canada, so there's always MAID.

    That's a comfort. A right to not die in massive suffering. That is >>>>> worth something. Frame it a put it on the wall.

    It's one of the few individual rights Canada is interested in protecting >>>> these days. That it also aligns with their goal of reducing healthcare >>>> costs is probably just a coincidence.

    Everything is a conspiracy isn't it, wilson?

    Do you deny that Canada has greatly expanded access to MAID?

    Do you deny that Canada also has a goal of reducing healthcare costs?

    Like I said, it's probably just a coincidence.

    Everything is a conspiracy, isn't it wilson?

    There's an interesting phenomena often repeated. When certain
    individuals or groups are among the approved good guys, the tendency is
    to deny those parties might be acting in their own self-interest.

    Meanwhile the same consideration is never given to people who aren't on
    their list of approved good guys.

    It's one of the hallmarks of far left progressivism to harness this
    tendency and claim their good intentions must trump all other
    considerations.
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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Thu May 14 10:51:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Thu, 14 May 2026 10:21:23 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 9:35 PM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:29 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 17:04:03 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:09 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 13:11:07 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>>> wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN >>>>>>>>>> Declaration
    says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth
    distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it >>>>>>>>>> with his
    weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated. >>>>>>>>>
    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and >>>>>>>> ethical.

    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary >>>>>>> views.

    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected >>>>>>>> however, is not.

    That is your opinion.a Not necessarily a fact.

    Why do you insist on repeatedly sharing pointless pedantic observances >>>>>> like this?

    Of course it's my opinion.

    Because you present it as unchallengeable fact.a It seems necessary to >>>>> remind you, if to bring perspective to the conversation if for no
    other reason.

    It looks like you're presenting *that* as an unchangeable fact.

    Good thing any reasonable person knows it's just your opinion.

    So you assert.a I don't think any reasonable person will necessarily
    agree with you.

    Any sensible person reading this would agree it's opinion. That kind of
    goes without saying.

    It is one of your tricks.

    Having said that, it is not a trick. It's supposed to be a normal
    conversation, but you're sounding more and more the extremist, based on
    the consensus of the group.

    To assume that "any reasonable person> knows", "the people have
    voted, therefore they agree with me".a You
    can now say, that any reasonable person would know I don't do that,
    but t'aint so.a I do my best to keep you honest, but you do tend to
    leak around the edges.

    Wait! What?

    Noah tends towards the incomprehensible when the conversation goes in >directions he can't deal with.

    Wilson imagines he is incomprehensible.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Noah Sombrero@fedora@fea.st to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Thu May 14 10:54:05 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On Thu, 14 May 2026 10:45:52 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 2:33 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 13:27:27 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:29 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:41:24 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 1:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:20:47 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>> wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 9:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>>>>
    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So >>>>>>>>>> what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even >>>>>>>>> beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my
    neighborhood for anybody.

    Well you live in Canada, so there's always MAID.

    That's a comfort. A right to not die in massive suffering. That is >>>>>> worth something. Frame it a put it on the wall.

    It's one of the few individual rights Canada is interested in protecting >>>>> these days. That it also aligns with their goal of reducing healthcare >>>>> costs is probably just a coincidence.

    Everything is a conspiracy isn't it, wilson?

    Do you deny that Canada has greatly expanded access to MAID?

    Do you deny that Canada also has a goal of reducing healthcare costs?

    Like I said, it's probably just a coincidence.

    Everything is a conspiracy, isn't it wilson?

    There's an interesting phenomena often repeated. When certain
    individuals or groups are among the approved good guys, the tendency is
    to deny those parties might be acting in their own self-interest.

    Meanwhile the same consideration is never given to people who aren't on >their list of approved good guys.

    It's one of the hallmarks of far left progressivism to harness this
    tendency and claim their good intentions must trump all other >considerations.

    Wilson wants you to believe his guys don't hold the current list of
    approved good guys. Wilsonians are the victims. They so booohoo.
    --
    Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
    Don't get political with me young man
    or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
    <<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
    Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
    dares: Ned
    does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away

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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Thu May 14 12:18:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/14/2026 7:51 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Thu, 14 May 2026 10:21:23 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 9:35 PM, Dude wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:29 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 17:04:03 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 2:09 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 13:11:07 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>> wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:28 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:36:54 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 3:41 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 5/11/26 9:38 AM, Dude wrote:
    There is no human right to take someone's property. The UN >>>>>>>>>>> Declaration
    says nothing about capitalistic or socialistic wealth
    distribution.

    My advice to Nick would be to buy his own home and defend it >>>>>>>>>>> with his
    weapon of choice. He has a right to do that. It's not complicated. >>>>>>>>>>
    ur advice is myopic, juvenile, and wildly unsustainable

    Dude's advice is fully sustainable, mature, well reasoned, and >>>>>>>>> ethical.

    I don't think there is room for reconciliation of such contrary >>>>>>>> views.

    Nick's view that personal property rights should not be protected >>>>>>>>> however, is not.

    That is your opinion.-a Not necessarily a fact.

    Why do you insist on repeatedly sharing pointless pedantic observances >>>>>>> like this?

    Of course it's my opinion.

    Because you present it as unchallengeable fact.-a It seems necessary to >>>>>> remind you, if to bring perspective to the conversation if for no
    other reason.

    It looks like you're presenting *that* as an unchangeable fact.

    Good thing any reasonable person knows it's just your opinion.

    So you assert.-a I don't think any reasonable person will necessarily
    agree with you.

    Any sensible person reading this would agree it's opinion. That kind of
    goes without saying.

    It is one of your tricks.

    Having said that, it is not a trick. It's supposed to be a normal
    conversation, but you're sounding more and more the extremist, based on
    the consensus of the group.

    To assume that "any reasonable person> knows", "the people have
    voted, therefore they agree with me".-a You
    can now say, that any reasonable person would know I don't do that,
    but t'aint so.-a I do my best to keep you honest, but you do tend to
    leak around the edges.

    Wait! What?

    Noah tends towards the incomprehensible when the conversation goes in
    directions he can't deal with.

    Wilson imagines he is incomprehensible.

    So, it's all about Wilson's opinion. Brilliant!

    Will somebody, anybody, wrap up this discussion about Nicks right to
    have a secure home?

    It looks like the consensus is, that Nick has a human right to his own
    body and mind by virtue of being human.

    Owning a home is optional.

    Thank you all for your insightful comments, close to 400 lines (almost a record).

    Suggestion: On these boards in a debate or discussion, try to stay on
    topic. Usually, an informant will take just a second or two and start a
    new thread with a new subject. YMMV.



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  • From Dude@punditster@gmail.com to alt.buddha.short.fat.guy on Thu May 14 12:22:33 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

    On 5/14/2026 7:54 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Thu, 14 May 2026 10:45:52 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 2:33 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 13:27:27 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/12/2026 10:29 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 08:41:24 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:
    On 5/11/2026 1:32 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:20:47 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>>> wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 9:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:29 -0400, Wilson <Wilson@nowhere.invalid> >>>>>>>>> wrote:
    On 5/10/2026 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 09:58:40 -0700, Dude <punditster@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 8:43 AM, Wilson wrote:
    On 5/8/2026 4:50 AM, dart200 wrote:
    to have a place called _home_ that no one else can take away??? >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    If it's something that someone else has to provide for you, it might be
    a good idea but it's not a "right".

    Your body/mind is your home. You have an innate human right to be secure
    in your person.

    The most basic human right is the right to life, as stated in Article 3
    of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

    Often considered the foundation of all other rights, the right to life
    ensures that every person is entitled to live in safety and freedom.

    But, if you are not, absolutely nothing will be done about it. So >>>>>>>>>>> what good is this right you posit?

    People do things about it all the time. LOTS of things. Some are even
    beneficial for the people who are being deprived.

    So you assert. In my case, I sense no such protections in my >>>>>>>>> neighborhood for anybody.

    Well you live in Canada, so there's always MAID.

    That's a comfort. A right to not die in massive suffering. That is >>>>>>> worth something. Frame it a put it on the wall.

    It's one of the few individual rights Canada is interested in protecting >>>>>> these days. That it also aligns with their goal of reducing healthcare >>>>>> costs is probably just a coincidence.

    Everything is a conspiracy isn't it, wilson?

    Do you deny that Canada has greatly expanded access to MAID?

    Do you deny that Canada also has a goal of reducing healthcare costs?

    Like I said, it's probably just a coincidence.

    Everything is a conspiracy, isn't it wilson?

    There's an interesting phenomena often repeated. When certain
    individuals or groups are among the approved good guys, the tendency is
    to deny those parties might be acting in their own self-interest.

    Meanwhile the same consideration is never given to people who aren't on
    their list of approved good guys.

    It's one of the hallmarks of far left progressivism to harness this
    tendency and claim their good intentions must trump all other
    considerations.

    Wilson wants you to believe his guys don't hold the current list of
    approved good guys. Wilsonians are the victims. They so booohoo.

    This looks like a wrap. Maybe time to start a Wilson thread.

    Go!

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