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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: i-node who wrote (41844)7/12/2017 12:29:51 PM
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Its true that that he takes the extreme, unrealistic case. OTOH he points out what a very strong version of a "positive right" would entail.

Rights* IMO are properly the right not to have someone do something (murder, rape, enslavement, strong unjustified infringements on liberty... to you. Not that someone has to do something for you.

Strong "positive rights" are in a sense more power than right. You have the right to compel and demand. The strongest forms would be that you could compel someone to help you out (for example provide medical care), or they would face punishment or compulsion if they would refuse. But in most cases, at least for broad application/recognition of the right, the strongest versions are so obviously unjust and impractical that they don't get enforced. You do get a more limited version with requirements to provide emergency care, or anti-discrimination laws requiring you to provide goods or services to others.

*Meaning natural rights BTW, legal rights are just whatever the law says you can do or are entitled to, constitutional rights are a strong version of legal rights, that align better with natural rights than many legal rights do. You could have a limited legal right to health care or health care coverage, not so much a natural right to it.
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