This whole healthcare argument going on in the US is bewildering to me as a Brit. Opponents seem to think doctors are enslaved.
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It does feel very odd for me, an atheist, to be told by Christians that rights are a human concept & there's no objectively moral stance.
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I agree obviously. We need to argue for the right to healthcare as a moral good. But where do they think I think those ethics come from?
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That's the answer that needs to be articulated by proponents. What distinguishes a good policy from a right?
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I am just discovering that Americans use the term 'right' in a quasi religious sense to mean something inalienable that exists objectively.
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Whereas I am talking about 'things we decide that a good society should provide for all its citizens.'
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Whereas human rights are not something for society to decide. They are an ethical version of a scientific discovery.
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They're a human concept based on the premise that human wellbeing in this matters.
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*in this life matters
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