ext_218643 ([identity profile] jerseycajun.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2011-07-16 07:03 pm (UTC)

Re: Public education is political indoctrination paid for by theft

*plays broken record* Regardless of whether or not one agrees with the policy of government provided health care and education, fundamentally these things are not appropriate to characterize as rights. A right which is violated has consequences for the person who committed the violation. The condition for violation of a right to health care or education is the passive one which involves simply lacking one or both of those things, yet because it is a passive state of being, there can be no one who is held responsible for it when it happens the way, say a murderer can be held directly responsible for violating his victim's right to life.

These things are better described for what they are, regardless of what side of the political spectrum one finds ones self on:

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