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:

• 0:22 - Book Club - Man, Economy, and State
• 1:06 - Psychic Revenue
• 2:00 - Exchange and the division of labor
• 4:06 - Buying the same goods from different suppliers: different goods rather than same goods with different pricing considerations?
• 7:53 - What are rights?
• 8:48 - Right to free healthcare?
• 11:38 - What is healthcare?
• 13:43 - More clarity on the nature of rights
• 15:47 - The theistic terminology of the US Declaration of Independence
• 16:55 - The nature of the "right to life" and relevance for medical care
• 21:28 - Are medical care providers forced to provide care?
• 24:27 - Charity, marginal utiilty, and insurance
• 28:13 - Philosophy and government providing where individuals cannot
• 32:32 - Conclusion regarding the nature of rights
• 34:33 - Application of the term "right to eduction"
• 35:03 - Voting rights
• 36:00 - The US Bill of Rights and gun ownership rights
• 38:52 - Establishment of ownership and homesteading
• 41:15 - Unfairness
• 45:37 - The reality or unreality of an impartial arbiter
• 46:44 - Good enough government
• 49:38 - Membership in government as voluntary? The example of the secession of the southern states
• 52:03 - The imperfect nature of the American system of government
• 53:17 - 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