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> states are morally required to provide citizens with access to affordable health care There may be other indications (I haven't checked), but that statement
by brbsix 10y ago
> states are morally required to provide citizens with access to affordable health care
There may be other indications (I haven't checked), but that statement doesn't sound even remotely libertarian. The moral requirement to provide affordable health care is a positive right (something that obliges action). Contrast this to a negative right, something that obliges inaction, such as free speech or private property. Libertarians generally don't acknowledge positive rights (unless by contract, but then we're talking about something else).
- HarryHirsch 10y agoI didn't check much either, but "economic liberty" is amongst the libertarian shibboleths.
- TTPrograms 10y agoSo your opinion of an unrelated argument was driven by the association of this author's separate work which contains an idea that's associated with an ideology you oppose? That's like an (ad hominem)^3. On the face it doesn't appear unreasonable that a state should protect some aspects of a free economy - disagreement with that would imply disagreement with the fundamental capitalist economics of western nations. "we also have to consider the observable phenomenon of decision fatigue" Are we just talking about random things now?