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b_sharp3/20/2010 7:22:22 pm PDT

re: #1071 The Sanity Inspector

I’m still very allergic to language like that. This program may or may not bring about a highly desirable social good. But no way is it a right. Rights do not require the time and/or money of other citizens to be spent on one’s behalf. Health care does.

It’s part of the social contract we all sign by being social animals, it is in effect written in our DNA. The idea of a ‘right’ is archaic and needs to be re-defined.

I have yet to meet someone who can define it as it stands.