The second requirement is that a rational being would will
will this maxim to become a universal law. In testing this part, you must decide whether in every case, a rational being would believe that universal health care is a noble undertaking. Do you value human life, Wildstar? As a right wing conservative, I fathom you would say yes as long as you don't personally have to pay for it. So, your answer is no. First, it is clear that a healthy human being desires to live forever unless that person is a suicide bomber or hates life. A unhealthy human would only serve to represent the deterioration of human life, which is worthy of revolt from a healthy point of view and one of the prime reasons why Universal Healthcare is needed. The premise, of course, is that Life is Good, Healthy Human life, that is. (I can define Healthy for you if you like). Therefore, even people who would consider not supporting universal health care, must concede that the correct and expected action is to tell the truth, that human life is worth spending money on, that we must revolt against DEATH at all times.
It's funny how you get all defensive when you get called on your own game. You are avoiding the logical contradiction in your own reasoning and find it easier to call me a "right wing conservative" when anyone who knows me would laugh at that statement. The fundamental truth of the categorical imperative is that it is incompatible with any positive right. If positive rights could be willed into universal laws, all human life would be self-contradictory. There might be other reasons to support laws for slavery, but positive rights based on the categorical imperative is not one of them.
A universal system of positive rights would involved me defending my rights at this very moment by throwing you in jail because you are violating my right to food by not providing it to me. Similarly, you could throw your friend in jail for not providing you with health care. And so on for the entire society.
If you really want people to have affordable health care, you would support laws that prevent rent-seeking, agency capture, and monopoly privilege, instead of doing the opposite. But since you continue to agitate against the poor, I can only conclude that you would rather fool yourself into making yourself feel good about your 'cause' by insulting others that hold different views. Introspection is a rare trait, and I certainly shouldn't have expected to find it here on SI from Eloi. Keep believing your comforting falsehoods as the worst off in society suffer because of your actions. |
