Dave Rael and Joe Macaluso discuss rights and come to an agreement on what rights are. The conversation uses healthcare as an example to explore what is and isn't a right and goes through many examples. Ultimately, the question whether citizens are slaves of the state is addressed with a thought exercise.
Chapters:
- - Book Club - Man, Economy, and State
- - Psychic Revenue
- - Exchange and the division of labor
- - Buying the same goods from different suppliers: different goods rather than same goods with different pricing considerations?
- - What are rights?
- - Right to free healthcare?
- - What is healthcare?
- - More clarity on the nature of rights
- - The theistic terminology of the US Declaration of Independence
- - The nature of the "right to life" and relevance for medical care
- - Are medical care providers forced to provide care?
- - Charity, marginal utiilty, and insurance
- - Philosophy and government providing where individuals cannot
- - Conclusion regarding the nature of rights
- - Application of the term "right to eduction"
- - Voting rights
- - The US Bill of Rights and gun ownership rights
- - Establishment of ownership and homesteading
- - Unfairness
- - The reality or unreality of an impartial arbiter
- - Good enough government
- - Membership in government as voluntary? The example of the secession of the southern states
- - The imperfect nature of the American system of government
- - Slave of the state?
Resources:
- Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition - Murray N. Rothbard
- Bernie Sanders on the Right to Healthcare
- A respectful ideological collision between Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul
- United States Declaration of Independence
- "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." (may not have been Mark Twain)
- Homestead Acts
- Homesteading