If this was even remotely true, then how did human beings exist for millions of years, hitherto the day and age when this is being read?Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:45 pmOkay. But on what would you base that right?commonsense wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:09 pm I don’t know that we can agree, but I would consider it a basic human right to have access to healthcare.
For there was surely a time in human civilization when there was no reasonable degree of healthcare for anybody...
Healthcare is supplied and provided by Nature, Itself. Refusing or withholding access to the available healthcare, at any particular day or age, is a human behavior.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:45 pm so it couldn't possibly be a basic human right...because it's clearly not intrinsic to being human.
What, exactly, are you proposing here is NOT intrinsic to being human?
If providing care for those who are injured or unhealthy is NOT intrinsic to being human, then human beings would have died out years or millennia ago.
Caring for the sick and injured is VERY intrinsic to being human. Just look at how the vast majority of parents behave, in regards to their sick or injured child.
Again, how have 'you', human beings, existed without 'healthcare'?Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:45 pm Humans have often been without it, and it was not even possible for them to have it for most of human history.
Firstly, what is 'healthcare', to 'you'?
What do 'you' consider a, so called, "reasonable level of health care"?Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:45 pm Even today, many countries do not even have the means to offer what you might consider a reasonable level of health care...
To some, the 'level of health care' 'you', human beings, had in the days when this was written was a complete and utter joke. Relatively speaking that 'level' is laughable, to the 'present time', and would be considered completely unreasonable.
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:45 pm Consequently, we could argue that we want people to HAVE it, but it couldn't be basic, and couldn't supervene purely upon their status as human beings. It could only be a special privilege granted by those advanced polities with the means to offer it...