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Originally Posted by ellemint
To those of you who do not consider healthcare a basic human right, I ask the question: Is life-saving healthcare a basic human right? Because if you deny even that, then you are basically saying people should simply be allowed to die if they cannot afford healthcare. What kind of civilized country would allow that?
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No, because rights can only be negative. They describe what people shouldn't do to you, rather than give you the right to demand something from other people. All rights are supposed to be this way.
You can still say that nobody should be left to die if they can't afford care, and I'd agree in most situations, but that doesn't make it a right...sort of how people shouldn't be left to starve if they can't afford food, but that doesn't give them the right to go into a grocery store and just take stuff.
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