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[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Arryn:
What humans deserve is "the chance for a better life", not the better life itself. The latter should be earned.

And it still would be. Providing a hard bottom that people cannot fall below that allows them to avoid starving and suffering from poor health does not mean that they are experiencing a life of luxury.

Society owes me the opportunity to succeed, not the success itself.

I never said that society owes you success. I said that society owes you protection from starving to death and abject poverty.

Society owes me the right to be able to find good medical care, not the care itself.

I can never understand why basic medical care isn't considered to be something that society should pay for. After all, people don't seem to have a problem with the sewer system being paid for by taxes, and that's the single most important part of your health care. After all, you as an individual wouldn't be hurt by dumping your own personal sewage into the river.

If humans have an innate right to be taken care of by our society, then why must we pay for rent, food, or anything else we might want in our ordained right to happiness?

You would pay for them because you want better than the bare minimum.