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How can you logically have a right to the services of someone else? Health care is a product - doctors, hospitals, medicine, etc. These must all be produced by
by Randgalt 10y ago
How can you logically have a right to the services of someone else? Health care is a product - doctors, hospitals, medicine, etc. These must all be produced by people.
- lutorm 10y agoYou can't divine rights out of some fundamental logic. The only ones who can decide what rights humans have are the humans themselves, and then we structure our society to make sure those rights aren't violated.
- Randgalt 10y ago"You can't divine rights out of some fundamental logic" - of course you can. This is the role of philosophy.
- lutorm 10y agoGood luck with that.
- Randgalt 10y agohttps://www.amazon.com/Objectivism-Philosophy-Ayn-Rand-Library/dp/0452011019/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1471476613&sr=1-1&keywords=objectivism+the+philosophy+of+ayn+rand https://www.amazon.com/Objectivism-Philosophy-Ayn-Rand-Libra...
- lutorm 10y agoMaybe I should have been clearer: Just because you say it's derivable "from logic" doesn't mean it is. No logic system can do anything without axioms, and the adoption of those axioms is an arbitrary choice.
- Randgalt 10y agoAxioms are not arbitrary - they simply are. An axiom is a recognition of the nature of reality.
- lutorm 10y agoDidn't you say this earlier, though? The purpose of government is to protect our rights. It sounds like you also think "you logically have a right to the services of someone else", otherwise who's doing the protection?