A while back, a meme was going around that clarified an important distinction between rights and entitlements, and nicely illustrated what kind of nonsense you get when you mix those up. It went something like this:
What’s interesting is that if you change health care to education, it loses none of its validity:
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Ian Underwood is the author of the Bare Minimum Books series (BareMinimumBooks.com). He has been a planetary scientist and artificial intelligence researcher for NASA, the director of the renowned Ask Dr. Math service, co-founder of Bardo Farm and Shaolin Rifleworks, and a popular speaker at liberty-related events. He lives in Croydon, New Hampshire.
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