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what would be a better question is, why isn't it a right?



Rights allow you to do for yourself. "Rights" should never force others to do for you. Healthcare is not a right because other people have to pay for it. Then that raises the bigger question if others have to pay for your healthcare should they be able to restrict what you eat or what activities you do. You've gotten yourself a catch 22 there either you can do anything you want in your persoanl life. eat fatty foods or salt. watch TV instead of excersise, have unprotected sex, drive a motorcycle, Go out in the rain when it's cold, associate with sick people, mountain climb, skydive. Then I (who hypothetically does none of the above) should have to pay for the consequenses of all your bad decisions. OR since your health is now my responsibility , I should have a say in how you take care of yourself. I could (by way of government) restrict your right to eat fatty foods impose manditory excercise times. Make laws that require you be monogomous, restrict foods that could be cacinigens, like cofee. That to me however sounds like it would impede on your......rights.

Last edited by the G-man; 2005-03-22 1:56 PM.
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