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>We need a new word for this sort of thing […] lest entire generations of people think that the millions and billions of dollars required to process and clean w
by jrflowers 3y ago
>We need a new word for this sort of thing […] lest entire generations of people think that the millions and billions of dollars required to process and clean water, and grow produce and make access to food possible, and have other human being labor for our benefit as being “entitled rights” simply be being a human being.
I’m curious about this. My response to this statement is “So what?”
Aside from the implicit assumption that “entire generations of people” would never bother to learn how society functions if the word “right” were used in a more relaxed sense when it comes to healthcare, what harm comes to society if citizens are comfortable considering healthcare to be a right?
I use the phrase “what harm comes” in the present tense because many people that live in countries with socialized medicine happily call healthcare a right. What harm are they undergoing presently?