Episode 006 | Politely Up Yours - Rights

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