Episode 006 | Politely Up Yours - Rights

Politely, Up Yours!

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