ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

[Warren Dew]

(01-24-2017, 04:28 PM)Mikebert Wrote:

(01-24-2017, 04:11 PM)Galen Wrote:

(01-24-2017, 01:59 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Health care is a right. The trickle-downer libertarians want to continue to deny this; it's just reactionary ideology dominating the minds of half the American people.

No its not.  You do not have the right to the product of another person labor which is why libertarians generally reject the notion of positive rights because they are a violation of the non-aggression principle.  On the other hand individuals and groups of people may chose to set up charities to provide health care and no libertarian would have a problem with it, indeed they would probably help.  It is the use of force by government that is objected to.

This quote by Murray Rothbard describes the mentality of the left perfectly: It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

These libertarian precepts are no more legitimate than the divine right of kings.

Which places them well above any precepts progressivism might have.