Bill Whittle: What Is a Right and How Do We Know?
uring the debate last night, Barack Obama was asked if he though health care was a “right.” He said he thought it was a right.
Well, if you accept that premise, you can ask some logical follow-up questions. For instance, food is more important than health care… you die pretty quickly without food. Do we have a “right” to food in America? What about shelter? Do we have a “right” to housing? And if we have a right to housing, what standard of housing do we have a right to? And if it is a right — due to all Americans — doesn’t that mean that no one should have to accept housing, or health care, that is inferior to anyone else’s, since it’s a right?