Terry, what a thoroughly redundant idea. Only the colossal fools at the UN would believe that toddlers need to be taught that they have a right to expect food, to be looked after, to have a voice, and to choose what toys to play with. That’s like thinking babies need to be taught how to cry or cats need to be taught to look at their owners with cool diffidence.
Naturally, being the UN, they are trying to inculcate the next generation with the idea of positive rights ? i.e., privileges bestowed upon them by Nanny Government after having taken from others ? as opposed to negative rights, which are rights bestowed upon each individual equally by the Creator God and cannot, must not be taken from him by any government.
It is entirely unnecessary to teach toddler to expect to be cared for. What is necessary is to teach them to grow into self-sufficient individuals who don’t look to government to provide their “rights” to be provided but who look to government only to protect their rights, from outside rogues and states, from other government forces, and from fellow citizens.
No, as I’ve written before, we are all born as little socialists:
You’re handed everything you need; you think you’re entitled to everything other people have, and sometimes you just go and take it; you have no idea how money works, what it is, how you get it, and how to use it; you believe all the phony scary stories your friends dream up; your hero is some man who lives to give you a whole buncha stuff once a year, talks to animals, and lives in the one place in the world that’s safe from global warming; you think a bicycle is great transportation; you think trains are really cool; being asked to do even the slightest amount of work is the worst thing anyone has ever said to you; you think the opposite sex is icky; you’re whiny; you smell bad; and you throw a fit at the dinner table.
