Posted on 05/29/2017 11:49:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Standing at a bus stop in Paris recently, I noticed an advertisement for Médecins du Monde, Doctors of the World, a charity similar to the more famous Médecins Sans Frontières. “Liberty, equality, health,” it proclaimed: in other words, health replaced fraternity in the trio of French republican virtues (or aspirations).
At the bottom of the ad were two additional slogans:
HEALTH FOR ALL
RIGHTS FOR EVERYONE
But what could health for all possibly mean? Health even for the dying? Or immortality, perhaps?........
What goes for money, however, also goes for health. The healthy man and the paralyzed have equally the right to play tennis: but in order for them both to have equal rights in practice, it is necessary either to cure the paralyzed of his paralysis or prohibit the healthy man from taking up his racquet. Again, in practice, the second is far easier than the first.
In other words, those who demand of freedom and equality under the law that everyone should in actuality be placed in the same condition or position will soon destroy freedom without having achieved equality. But to explain why requires more than six words on an advertisement at a bus stop.
The left strives for utopia, but only achieves destruction.
There are two places where the Rights of another end, my Wallet and the tip of my Nose.
“or prohibit the healthy man from taking up his racquet”
Some famous sci fi short story depicted a culture where the more able bodied wore physically limiting attire to assure equality of ability. Anyone recall?
I recently found my copy of the originating book “Utopia”. It’s satire. Will have to read it again.
I notice this propaganda all the time.
Children are told they can be anything they want to be.
The severely handicapped are told they are not disabled.
In reality, not everyone has the same talents as everyone else. Not everyone is as intelligent as everyone else.
If you have no arms or legs, you cannot be a fireman (well, there actually might be some armless, legless “firemen” out there knowing how the handicapped preference hiring works).
Socialism as all about lying to the proles to make them believe the untrue, and then handicapping everyone else down to the lowest common denominator to make it true.
Yes, by now, literally everyone on FR recalls K. Vonnegut Jr.'s "Harrison Bergeron."
Regards,
“Health For All!” That is less than intelligent on its face. It is redundant. Absolutely everyone has Health. Some people are in good health, some not. But everyone has health. It is not in any way a “right.” It is a fact of existence.
It was Vonnegut - Harris Bergeron, IIRC.
“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
If - there’s a right to health,
Then - why not a right to housing, food, clothing, transportation.
I didn’t say anything about a “right to health.”
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