For roughly 99.99% of the time humans have been on Earth, no one had access to medicine or health care of any value whatsoever.
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Replying to @St_Rev
One infers that since no one currently has access to nanites, immortality vaccine, uploading or living metal tech, none of us are free.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Come on, rights rhetoric is just to correct for normies' status quo bias. Trivial to convert to Utilitarian in your head, right?
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"Healthcare lowers expected suffering" is the real justification, and not vulnerable to your critique.
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BUT most people are not as moved by a possible benefit as they are by a threat to rights, freedoms. So Sanders used that.
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Replying to @as_per_ushe @St_Rev
This frame does not make as much sense, but it is more moving. Your opening tweet attacks political rhetoric for having logical gaps.
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Replying to @as_per_ushe @St_Rev
Of course it does. But if you can see that you can also ask if there's a real justification for this policy that didn't work rhetorically.
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So...the problem with calling his rhetoric stupid is that it doesn't apply to an argument he didn't make. Got it.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Yeah I mean you were totally right. Not sure where I was going with this actually.
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Replying to @as_per_ushe
Twitter's a bad platform for meaningfully engaging policy but it's great for pointing out nonsense.
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