ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

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(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.

Libertarianism eliminated the divine rights of kings, the divine rights of the Pope, the divine rights of Adolf Hitler, the divine rights of Osama bin Laden and so forth. It's more legitimate. I recognize the powers vested in me and understand what I'm able do/accomplished with those powers.
The Pope doesn't even have the balls to point his finger at evil and call it what is because it might mad and kill him and kill all of those associated his religion. Who does he have to protect him and his religious people? American (free) Catholics, who are free to make moral decisions themselves and join army's and agency's focused on killing the evil people that he's unable to point out himself. You should thank your lucky stars that you were born in America.