On rights

[unixronin]

Keeping it short:  hugh_mannity on health care, starting with why health care is not a right.  (The capsule summary of which first point is that you do not have a right to anything that somebody else has to work to provide for you.)

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[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

corollary: the govt doesn't have a right to subsume rights that already exist...

like the right to self-defense...

the police are NOT there to defend us, and in fact, claim such; but the govt is of the opinion that they will do that for us, thus, we do not need guns...

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That's their rationale. Their actual reasoning, I believe, is much more that they don't want us able to protect and defend ourselves from them. They want us defenseless and dependent.