Friday, May 13, 2011
Bad logic, Randy
Rand Paul says a "right to health care" means that doctors are slaves; that anyone who needs or wants health care can take it from a doctor at any time.
Nope. Bad logic. The "right" to free press doesn't mean you can walk into a newspaper office and take over the presses; it does mean you can publish your own paper. The "right" to self-defense doesn't mean you can steal a gun; it does mean you can buy or make a weapon and use it to defend yourself. And so on.
Thus a "right" to health care, properly interpreted, would mean only that the FDA can't stop you from using therapists or medicines that don't bring huge profits to the FDA's favorite monopolistic pharma companies.
Yet another proof that the whole concept of "rights" was badly formed to begin with, and leads to all sorts of misuse and abuse from all directions.
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Continuing the above thought: a proper right to health care could be formed as a direct extension of the right to self-defense.
Both of our idiot "sides" maintain the agreed-on lie that the 2nd Amendment is solely about guns. It's not. It's about self-defense. It guarantees that you can own and use the necessary devices to defend your house and body. Against what? Not specified, though it clearly means human enemies. A gun or baseball bat is a good device to defend your house and body against a human enemy; by extension, a DDT sprayer is a good defense against a mosquito enemy and a dose of polio vaccine is a good defense against a viral enemy.
Nope. Bad logic. The "right" to free press doesn't mean you can walk into a newspaper office and take over the presses; it does mean you can publish your own paper. The "right" to self-defense doesn't mean you can steal a gun; it does mean you can buy or make a weapon and use it to defend yourself. And so on.
Thus a "right" to health care, properly interpreted, would mean only that the FDA can't stop you from using therapists or medicines that don't bring huge profits to the FDA's favorite monopolistic pharma companies.
Yet another proof that the whole concept of "rights" was badly formed to begin with, and leads to all sorts of misuse and abuse from all directions.
= = = = =
Continuing the above thought: a proper right to health care could be formed as a direct extension of the right to self-defense.
Both of our idiot "sides" maintain the agreed-on lie that the 2nd Amendment is solely about guns. It's not. It's about self-defense. It guarantees that you can own and use the necessary devices to defend your house and body. Against what? Not specified, though it clearly means human enemies. A gun or baseball bat is a good device to defend your house and body against a human enemy; by extension, a DDT sprayer is a good defense against a mosquito enemy and a dose of polio vaccine is a good defense against a viral enemy.
Labels: Shared Lie
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