Health care is NOT a right!

"I would contend that free health care is a privilege" That is how you opened your argument and if you drop the "free" word, I would agree with you there 100%. Health care is a privilege. Period. Sadly our agreement stops there as you claim, "(Your) argument represents something of a false dichotomy." I would like it if you seem room for error in my arguement please show me where because I dont... I am not going to address, "education, national security, policing, public highways and..." Frankly because it is off topic. However my goal in this debate is to leave you with a black and white picture that you can refer back to when ever you have a dispute with anyone else regarding who has the right. "In a modern democracy, everybody has the right to..." The rest of this statement proves we live in, "less enlightened times" Because we do not have a democracy in the United states, we have a Republic! "I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands..." Did you get that? Not, and to the DEMOCRACY for which it stands. We have a republic, but that is another debate for another time. This debate is on if health care is or is not a right so first let me start off by defining what a right is... A right is a "Power privilege, facility or demand inherent in one person and incident upon another. generally defined as power of free action. Something you have the sovereign authority to do because their is no higher authority to get permission from." In other words there is nobody to ask. You get the final decision. That is what sovereign authority is. You are endowed by your creator with certain unalienable rights of which are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In other words there are some things some freedoms that God has given you that you do not have to ask anyone permission to do. Now this definition is the exact opposite of a privilege, A privilege is a "particular benefit or advantage enjoyed by a person, company, or class beyond the common advantages of other citizens. An exceptional or extraordinary power or exemption. A peculiar right, advantage, exemption, power, franchise, or immunity held by a person or class, not generally possessed by others. A temporary authority granted to you by someone of a higher authority." Example: If I step outside of MY house onto MY land. I can walk around on it all day long. Do I have to ask anyone for permission? NO! Because it is owned by me! It is MY land. Seems I own the property I have a RIGHT to do anything with it I please. Now If you lived next door to me and you owned the land around it. Now if there was a restaurant on the other side of your land and I wanted to go there to get a bite to eat, could I walk across your land to get to it? NO, I would have to get permission! It is a privilege for me to walk across your property because I don't own your land, YOU DO! You have the authority to do what ever you want with YOUR land. Now you may decide that on the weekend I can walk across your land. Then come Monday morning if you are having a bad day you may decide you don't want me walking across your land. You have the right to tell me that I can not walk across your land. You can tell me that I have to walk around if you so choose. So walking across your land is a privilege granted to me by someone of higher authority. i.e. You, the owner of the land. That privilege can be taken away at any time. And I have no say in the matter. But now days the government has many people convinced that we have certain privileges granted to us by the government. NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH! The government gets its power from "We the people!" and we the people have rights given to us from our creator! Like it or not believe in God or not, that is how it is written in the constitution! Rights derive from property! Like in the example I can walk across MY property because I own it. I can do what ever I want as long as I won it. You have a right to life because YOUR body is YOUR property! Even though you do have a right to eat (as long as it is YOUR food) do you have the right to walk into a restaurant and say I am hungry feed me for free? NO! Why? because it is not YOUR food it is not your property. You do not have the right to anyone elses property. That it an oxie moron. Like wise do you have a right to free health care? NO. You cant just walk into a doctors office and say cure me for free! Do you know why? because someone has to pay the doctor because it is HIS property medical care is HIS skill. How would you like it if someone walked into your business and demanded goods or service for free? You may say, "Well the Dr, is getting paid, so its not free." "My question to you would be, WHO is paying the dr?" Your only answer could be that the government pays for it. Which leads me to my last question, "Where is the government getting the money from?" Well I am so glad you asked, let me just tell you... Someone else! Think about it, Do you have the right to someone elses property? NO, not even if the government is "giving" it to you! You only have the right to YOUR property. There fore one must conclude that you do not have a right to free health care. So next time you have a question of who has the right, ask yourself, "who owns the property?" Well it was good debating you Brian Eggleston, good luck in you future debates.