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Air Conditioning Is a Human Right

Posted by awebb 8 years, 9 months ago to News
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"And while free citizens should be able to set their thermostat to whatever level they feel comfortable at (the Department of Energy conservatively recommends 78), imprisoning people in buildings where there is no thermostat to keep the temperature below 90 isn’t just uncomfortable, nor is it just dangerous—it’s a violation of a human right."

Give me a break. While I think that prisons have a responsibility to keep the facility at a temperature that is livable (this is for workers as much as prisoners) they do not have the responsibility to provide AC.

My fiancé and I just bought a house and guess what... it doesn't have central air. Is someone going to come out and give us a unit for free because the builder has violated our human rights?

Comfort is not a human right.


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  • Posted by $ blarman 8 years, 9 months ago
    It's too hot. It's too cold. Whine, whine, whine.

    Go find your own planet to complain on. Not willing to do that? Adapt. Either get used to fluctuating temperatures or build yourself a self-powered suit to always keep you in the height of comfort.
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  • Posted by mia767ca 8 years, 9 months ago
    life, liberty, & property...that is it...all else is false...
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  • Posted by Stormi 8 years, 9 months ago
    Comfort may not be a human right, but the right to shoose, if we pay for it, should be. Not so according to the moron VP, who announced A/C and refrigerators should go! While Texas denies only A/C to prisoners, as did the Sheriff in Ariz., Biden wants to deny the average person, not the UN or himelf, I am sure. His reaction is to carry out Obama's orders, who told the UN he would agree with implementing UN Agenda 21 in the US. So, those prisoners better think twice, because we are all in danger of losing our A/C.
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  • Posted by richrobinson 8 years, 9 months ago
    If they start to prosecute Climate Change skeptics, will they be denied air conditioning to prove there is Global Warming?
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Agree....however, we incinerate entirely too many people for acts which do not really constitute a "harm" to other people. A large proportion of the population is there for drug "Crimes". If these people want to harm themselves by using drugs, why should any of the rest of us care. I am sure I will hear others suggest that we could end up paying their medical costs or supporting them if they damage themselves and cant work....but isn't that what we are doing by incarcerating them??? Also there should not be such a substantial safety net for the dopers to fall in to when they become disabled or cant work. The fact that we do have such a safety net, causes more of this activity than there would be otherwise. it is in fact a "Moral Hazard"
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  • Posted by Enyway 8 years, 9 months ago
    If you like air conditioning, do not break the law. If you do not like the conditions of your incarceration, you should not have taken away the right of another. Quit your whining and quit your illegal activities.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 9 months ago
    Depending on how the buildings are built, the amount of airflow, some time of air conditioning is needed to live-- a human right. At the very least you need to replace the volume of air inside building every three hours. If the building is absorbing a lot of heat, you need more airflow or air conditioning.
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  • Posted by $ CBJ 8 years, 9 months ago
    Of course air conditioning is a human right!
    -- CBJ, Las Vegas, Nevada
    where the temperature reached a toasty 112 degrees today.
    Anxiously awaiting my government air conditioning subsidy (I mean entitlement). :-)
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    On AC they need is whatever nature provides that the walls haven't diverted. I suppose we can now wait for the post about all those innocents but this time I hope it's with enough factual evidence to figure out BTU's required.
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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 8 years, 9 months ago
    Of course the obvious answer is that if they prison is to hot for you, don't do what causes you to end up there. This 'rights' thing has gone way to far.
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