Welcome login | signup Language en es fr  Forum Post: A Right -
Is it a Verb or a Noun?  Posted 1 year ago on Aug. 30, 2012,
1:06 p.m. EST by TheRoot (91) from New York, NY This content is
user submitted and not an official statement  I had always
thought that the idea of a Right always stood for an action. I
work to buy a house. I work to buy a car. I work to buy food.
These activities are right for me to do in order to live, no? I
am asking because many of my comrades say that I have it
reversed. They say a Right is the thing that I am after. I have
a right to a house. I have a right to a car. I have a right to
groceries.    Read the Rules  I don't think anybody needs the
right to own houses and cars and all that as long as they have a
right to work.I don't have a right to work for pay;that is a
favor granted by an employer based on whether or not they can
find someone else who will do the same work for less money.In my
case,I can't be prevented from working,so I work.There is no way
for me to be paid for m