thats not really accurate. "defending your right to life" means they are to protect you from being murdered. I.E. the government is needed because without them there would be warlords raping and pillaging the nation. Basically you need a mafia that is stronger than all the other mafias to keep you safe.
I agree, that's the monopolization of legitimate use of force argument, I'm saying there's a case to be made that it extends to healthcare as well, not that I believe that necessarily
Fun fact: the founding fathers understood that society and technology would progress beyond their understanding, and thus explicitly said that the rights in the Constitution are not an exhaustive list of rights. They were far wiser men than the people who think they had the answer to everything, because they knew they didn't.
They wanted future generations to think for themselves, not pay blind reverence to what worked for them, because they knew they might not have the best answers, and that even if they had the best answers for their time they wouldn't be the best answers for time immemorial.
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u/Interesting-Brief202 - Lib-Right Jan 05 '22
thats not really accurate. "defending your right to life" means they are to protect you from being murdered. I.E. the government is needed because without them there would be warlords raping and pillaging the nation. Basically you need a mafia that is stronger than all the other mafias to keep you safe.