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PatrickforO

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4. It is a right. I can remember everyone dodging this question in 04.

Reply to ProudToBeBlueInRhody (Original post)

Thu Feb 25, 2016, 09:47 PM

Feb 2016

But it is. If we were fucking cave people, we'd have the 'right' to go see the shaman if we were sick, and pay her with a new flint knife, or some decorative carvings or something. But the point is we'd have the right. Just because.

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"Health care is not a right" [View all] ProudToBeBlueInRhody Feb 2016 OP

In the purest sense, it isn't TexasMommaWithAHat Feb 2016 #1

Purest sense? tk2kewl Feb 2016 #6

A right that requires positive actions by another is a tricky thing Recursion Feb 2016 #8

Thank you tk2kewl Feb 2016 #9

Rights in the purest sense TexasMommaWithAHat Feb 2016 #11

I've sometimes wondered though if military spending could be seen to violate the 3rd amendment Recursion Feb 2016 #12

Yes. Thank you tk2kewl Feb 2016 #13

Better to think of "personal rights" and "functions of government" TexasMommaWithAHat Feb 2016 #14

Not yet. Beartracks Feb 2016 #2

I think he's the guy from "Catch me if you can" Happyhippychick Feb 2016 #3

It is a right. I can remember everyone dodging this question in 04. PatrickforO Feb 2016 #4

Right. But if you and your employers have payed into it... El Supremo Feb 2016 #5

If he has a medical emergency ending up in the ER hopefully the doctor will tell him that then walk Sam_Fields Feb 2016 #7

It is, according the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights LeftishBrit Feb 2016 #10