Actually that’s exactly what people are arguing for. lol. What do you think a right is? What do you think people mean when they say that everyone should have a right to healthcare? Look up the definition of a right you sausage.
The only difference is who pays for it, the doctor or the taxpayer? If you demand the taxpayer pays for it then you’re demanding that the government steal from people by force and pay for your healthcare. That’s still demanding the product of other people’s labour. Now you’re demanding that I pay for your healthcare. You see where this goes?
If healthcare is a right, then that means that a person is entitled to the labour of a doctor, and the doctor has to give it to them “by right”. If some people are entitled by right to the labour of another then the other is deprived of rights and condemned to slave labour.
Whether you demand it directly of the doctor or you demand the taxpayer to pay for it. You are still demanding a right to somebody else’s labour. And that’s anti-freedom and completely contradicts individual rights.
Do you think that rights are just arbitrary concepts given to you by a piece of paper?
No. I think rights are the things we agree upon with one another.
We agree that the ability to speak freely is good, so we agree upon freedom to speak.
We agree that the ability to defend oneself is good, so we agree upon the freedom to be armed.
We agree that it is good to ensure that laws are enforced equitably, justly, and fairly, and so we agree upon the right to court cases.
Do you believe that your tax money paying for a judge is an infringement upon the rights of everyone? I welcome you to live in a world where justice is purely at the barrel of a gun.
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u/Taraxian 2d ago
Which is why the "principle of individual rights" is fatally flawed