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Re:Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug by cmurf on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @02:53PM (#11255324)
It's called the veil of ignorance. Locke was among its supporters, and while Locke was a staunch supporter of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, including property rights, he considered hoarding to be against nature. So it's possible to describe yourself as libertarian and still support publicly funded alcohol and drug rehab.

In other words, how do you want a society work where you or a family member might have a strongly prone to addiction? Do you want a society that tries to neutralize such affects so that they can still be functioning members of society? Or do you want only the whim of charity and profit motive of private industry to take care of them? I think the latter very clearly has all the wrong incentives for a stable society. It's classist, and it ignores that everyone has defects of some sort or another.

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Re:Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug by mariodiana on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @04:24PM (#11255825)
The "veil of ignorance" is John Rawls's term, not John Locke's. Please don't go using the one for the other. From your comment, what I can see is that you're using Rawls's philosophy far more than Locke's. It is not accurate to say that Locke supported this "veil of ignorance" idea. Locke was arguing about the nature of human beings. Rawls is doing something very different.
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