kanye west / t.i.

Yeah that was very much on purpose. I think you have to take a look at the guiding principles to give context to any specific platform. Part of the reason we are so divided today is that we view everything very differently prior to any specific policy disagreement. This makes it hard to bridge disagreements through conversations because often we aren't starting with any of the same first principles.

So for health care, it's really hard to have a conversation where both sides learn from the other, if people have totally different conception of what we mean when we say "a right." Are we talking just positive laws? Or do they connect to some sort of moral law? Traditionally, the very first Liberals (modern-day conservatives and liberals are for the most part Classical Liberals) like Locke's and Hobbe's conceived of rights as what a person would be guaranteed in the absence of government. Speech, self-defense, religion, property, privacy these are things you would be able to ensure for yourself without a government.

"What is role of government in economy?" The way this question is phrased seems to pre-suppose two competing ideologies. I don't think people should have an answer to that question. What is the role of government in building roads? What is the role of government in little kid's lemondade stands? What is the role of government in Forex trading? These are all questions about how the gov interacts with economic activities, if you have a simple ideology you lose the ability to look at the problem in front of the specific problem in front of you. Which to then more directly answer both your questions: I think if we view healthcare through the lens of rights and uncompromising off-the-shelf ideologies which give us an answer before the question has been asked, then we won't come up with good solutions to difficult problems. Something is too expensive, and we need to find ways to make it cheaper.

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