The Right to Bury Your Head in the Sand
In today's America, we seem to have a proliferation of new rights not enumerated in the Constitution. The most famous of the rights is the Right to Privacy which, of course, is not specifically identified in the Constitution, but which became a right by judicial reasoning in Griswold v. Connecticut . We also have (supposedly) a right to work, a right to food, a right to die, a right to medical care, a right to education, a right to personal autonomy, and many other rights that have seemingly become part of a core of unenumerated rights that either are recognized by law or which some argue should be recognized by law (with the obvious implications following therefrom). While I personally don't think that some of the aforementioned unenumerated rights deserve to be thought of as rights, each of these "rights" deserve respectful consideration. Yesterday, however, I read a newspaper article where a new right was being articulated that I hadn't previously encountered: ...