The difference between rights and obligations
Hello Rabbi,
Recently, disability organizations filed a petition with the High Court of Justice to equalize the disability pension to the minimum wage.
In their petition, the disability organizations claimed that the State of Israel violates the Basic Law “Human Dignity and Liberty” because it discriminates against the disabled in Israel and causes them to live below the poverty line. “It is impossible to live with such a pension with dignity, it is impossible to live with such a pension in contempt, it is impossible to live with such a pension at all,” the disability organizations wrote in the petition.
I think there is a common fallacy here where people don’t distinguish between rights and duties. Sometimes you have had the opportunity to talk in classes about this fallacy. What do you think about this whole story of the disabled (maybe this could be an interesting idea for a post that emphasizes the difference on the subject).
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