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It's very easy to make that case: healthcare should be a human right, and our society should provide it to every person to the extent that it can. We can just
by jakelazaroff 1y ago
It's very easy to make that case: healthcare should be a human right, and our society should provide it to every person to the extent that it can.
We can just decide to make things public services. No one ever says "wait a minute, kids shouldn't be get to use roads for free before paying a dime into the system." It sounds ridiculous! But for some reason, people buy that logic when it comes to healthcare and college.
- WalterBright 1y ago> healthcare should be a human right If you are by yourself, who is obligated to fulfill that right?
- nenenejej 1y agoWe are not by ourselves though. Sure compared to 1000AD we might be being a little... precious. But hopefully we can enjoy the fact we invented all this technology to make our lives better and dream for bigger rights than is possible in a dog eat dog barbaric world.
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- WalterBright 1y agoNote that the Bill of Rights does not enumerate any rights that anyone else is obliged to provide. (Neither does the Declaration of Independence.)
- jakelazaroff 1y agoI don't understand this response. A "right" by definition is about your interactions with other people.
- WalterBright 1y agoBy definition? I don't agree. Rights are a part of human nature, endowed by the Creator (or Evolution if you prefer). For example, since slavery was legal before the Civil War, does that mean the slaves had no right to be free?
- jakelazaroff 1y agoNo right to be free from what? If you are by yourself, who is there to enslave you? It doesn't matter how how rights are endowed; the entire concept is meaningless except with regard to other humans.
- WalterBright 1y agoYou have a right to be free from somebody trying to kill you. You do not have a right to force him to do your bidding.
- jakelazaroff 1y agoBoth of those rights govern exactly what I said: your interactions with other people. But anyway, no one is proposing anyone be forced to do someone's bidding.
- WalterBright 1y ago> no one is proposing anyone be forced to do someone's bidding. The proposed right to health care does exactly that.
- jakelazaroff 1y agoThat is not correct.
- WalterBright 1y agoYou and Bob are on a desert island. You have a right to health care. How are you going to make Bob give you health care?
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