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Old 05-26-2007, 12:35 PM   #548
Radar
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Whether our decisions "effect" others only matters if that effect is physical harm, endangerment, or the violation of your person, property, or rights. We can't use government to lock people up who hurt your feelings.

As far as people who are sick through no fault of their own, they should get insurance, or rely on private non-profit charities like Doctors without borders as well as friends, family, neighbors, their church, or hospitals and clinics who are willing to help them out.

Nobody is OWED healthcare paid for by unwilling others. You have the right to get any healthcare you can afford or which you can get honestly through charity or other means. You do not have the right to use thugs (government) to force others to pay for it. The same is true of education, charity, retirement, etc.

Police on the otherhand are another matter. Other than in anarchy and lawlessness, a society does have legitimate laws to protect one persons property, rights, and self against attack by others. We have the right to defend ourselves by any means necessary and to hire agents to do that for us. This prevents the weak from being victimized by the strong. This is why a police force is unlike government funded (theft) charity is wrong, but government funded police are not.
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