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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (82963)6/27/2000 12:31:00 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
The idea of a right to health care is of course absurd, but from a pragmatic standpoint it makes perfect sense for a
government to guarantee - and pay for - basic care for those who cannot afford it. The proposition may be
appalling on a theoretical plane, but it makes more sense than having a bunch of people staggering around carrying
infectious diseases and passing them on, or a bunch of corpses rotting in the streets..

You are just stating a preference for government over any possible individual or community action that would be voluntary. The collective.

Yes, free health care places an unacceptable lien on somebody's resources. So would picking up the bodies of the
people who wouldn't have health care in your ideal state.

Yes, unacceptable. Again shouldn't individuals and groups of individuals, like the ones who attend to health crises in foreign countries be given a chance or do we go for the collective again.

The sad fact is that if we give people the right to succeed
or fail, some will fail, and it is cheaper to support them at a minimal level than to clean up the mess they make if
they aren't supported. It's not a compassionate calculation, it's a purely economic one.

So, possibly we need a separate area for those who want the right to fail and for those who don't. It's perfectly OK to be pragmatic and attempt to influence others to "voluntarily" help their fellow man. Who's to say it wouldn't work?

Alexander the Great asked Diogenes "Is there anything I can do for you?" to which Diogenes replied, "You can stand aside from between me and the sunlight."
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