Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu...
by lutorm on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:20PM
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A fair number of people would consider the right to health care a fundamental human right.
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Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu...
by Randgalt on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:59PM
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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 people.
Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu...
by lutorm on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @06:49PM
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You 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.
Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu...
by lutorm on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @08:03PM
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Didn'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?
Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu...
by Randgalt on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @06:50PM
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"You can't divine rights out of some fundamental logic" - of course you can. This is the role of philosophy.
Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu...
by lutorm on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @07:12PM
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Good luck with that.
Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu...
by lutorm on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @10:31PM
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Maybe 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.