03-11-2017, 03:49 PM
(03-11-2017, 03:27 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:Quote:And if one believes that health care is a basic human right, letting each state decide who has that basic human right is kinda dubious morally. As soon as the phrase 'human right' is in the mix, local solutions that deny such rights can seem questionable.
Which is probably why the term should not be continually expanded to include more and more policy preferences. It makes governing a large and heterogenous country kinda difficult.
In abstract, I agree with you. The Supreme Court has been more aggressive than I like in inventing new rights.
In specific, do you feel confident, seeing someone sick, in saying they shouldn't get access to health care? UDHR 25 wasn't declared by five old men. Eleanor Rosevelt somehow wrangled it out of the UN General Assembly.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.