Constitutional Libertarianism

Constitutional Libertarianism

Monday, May 8, 2017

Inherent rights vs Induced rights

Inherent rights are those which every individual is born with.  They are often referred to as inalienable and bestowed upon us by a creator source or as part of reasonable observable natural conditions.  Regardless of the source of these inalienable rights, they are inherent as we begin our individual lives.

Induced rights are those created by societal incursion into individual's lives.In situations where due to societal impacts, perceived rights become expected.  For example, a society makes a law mandating that everyone must purchase something.  There is an Induced right to access or assisted access to that purchase.

Healthcare services have become increasingly seen as an Induced right.  The government continues to make specific demands on what and how to treat certain medical issues.  By doing so, there are those who insist that an Induced right to medical services now exists.

That condition only exists though because of enacted rules or laws forcing expenditure of assets and other resources related to the issue.  Remove the compelling laws and you no longer have a need for the induced compliance.

This is perhaps most observable in medication and access to it.  The government has decided to tell people what appropriate medicine is and isn't.  Government has also taken actions to compell and coerce people into what and how to access medicines.  Government has created a situation that creates dependencies.

However, speaking for myself, I have in my history been able to provide most of my own medical care.  I have stitched myself or had a friend do it.  I have treated wounds, burns and other concerns of various degrees satisfactorily.

I only have needed to access doctors, hospitals and pharmaceuticals in situations beyond my individual ability to diagnose and treat myself.  Every time that happens, I am confronted by regulatory coercion to inhibit access to necessary treatment and medicine that leaves me without access or being forced to go into debt or beg assistance to comply.

The answer is not to create an Induced right to access.  It is to remove that which creates the bottleneck so to speak.  Change or remove the laws and regulations that create bottleneck dependencies.

Laws and regulations were made to create them, laws and regulations can be changed or removed to eliminate those same dependencies.  Demanding an Induced right is not the answer, it only makes the original problem bigger.

You'll note that physicians and pharmacists are people providing a service.  In the U.S. people cannot be coerced or compelled into providing services and products against their will.

Making access to medical and pharmaceutical services an Induced right essentially forces those people to provide services and products against their will and potentially at a loss.  That is a form of slavery.  It is illegal and immoral.  It is not the answer.

The answer is not to create need for Induced rights to begin with.

 

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