I hear many pro-government healthcare folks make the case that the people who already receive government healthcare LOVE their healthcare. But is love enough to justify the theft of wealth from some people to pay for the healthcare of others? In other words, is love enough to justify the violation of rights? I say no. Anyone else care to have their say?
Kinda like the people in Iraq who loved the food rations they were receiving from Saddam. Food sure is good. Beats going hungry. Not much of an argument for Saddam to be the one to provide it though.
Why hasn’t anyone posted this?
on this appeal to love:
logical fallacy ‘appeal to emotion’. specifically quite possibly the specie of such called ‘appeal to pity’
especially the contradiction that love is achieved by coercion (sounds like the propaganda of a rapist).
Since you brought up rape, should rape be allowed as long as rapist loves raping? What about government healthcare?
You mean does it justify it to themselves?
The boilerplate “love” argument is an appeal to popularity in emotional wallpaper; take no heed of it. It’s either used as a distractionary tactic or non-sequitur.
I know. I wonder if anyone else (besides us) notices these quick and brief appeals to emotion in debates over government healthcare.
I love having beautiful girlfriends that do everything I please.
Therefore, the government should provide it to me.
The problem doesn’t end there, but also begins with a faulty premise based on pure ignorance of the terminology they use (ie: everyone has a right to health care!) Do most people possess a basic understanding what is a right? IMO: No. As they use it, rights is just another vacuous buzzword like profit used to make people boo or clap.
Are you saying that, after 13 years of American government schooling, most people don’t poses a basic understanding of what a “right” is?
I think they know what a right is, they just don’t see the contradiction in have a ‘right to property’ and a ‘right to healthcare’
Don’t forget conjuctive adverbs.
I don’t think they understand the difference between negative rights and positive rights.
Get out of my head!
…Things have really gone down hill since Bob.
Eh, should have posted this instead.
ORLY?
