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To continue with my <a href="https://steemit.com/philosophy/@dwinblood/it-s-free-i-tell-you-what-about-the-taxes-i-pay">It's Free I Tell you</a> post I wrote earlier, when I was looking for images to make my initial image collage I saw the common "*Healthcare is a right*", and "*Education is a right*" images and memes.

That is what I choose to talk about in this post.    Something being a RIGHT does not mean it is done for you automatically without any effort on your part.    It also does not mean it is free.

You do not get to enslave people to do work for you because you believe something is a right.

If you have to pay for something does that suddenly mean it is no longer a right?   The answer to that is no.

What most of these people talking about things as a right are actually saying is they believe it should be free, and that there should be absolutely no barriers to them accessing those "services".

In reality, when you are born you have the right to try to survive.   There is no magical service genie following each of us around and creating people to provide us services.    You do not have a right to those things if they require someone else to do them for you.

What we would like to see for people when they are born is equal OPPORTUNITY.    We would like the OPPORTUNITIES to do things to be available to everyone.    That does not mean everyone will choose to take advantage of those opportunities.   It does not mean that people should be forced to take every opportunity that comes their way.    Opportunity also does not mean free.   It means that if a new service becomes available, everyone should have the opportunity to use it.     There can and be a price or some kind of exchange that may be required before you can use that service but we should strive for that being an equal exchange.     Though I do not advocate forcing equality upon people, if a service provider chooses not to be equal then that should be spread far and wide and hopefully people would seek out or even create their own competing service provider.     That really is a different discussion though and perhaps I should not have brought that into this.    I mainly did as the Devil's Advocate in me usually runs parallel to my thinking while I am writing and I try to anticipate some WHAT IFs and things people might try to say to poke holes into my ideas.    In some cases I try to address them as I think of them.

I do this as so often I'll see a topic get derailed and people focus too much on the WHAT IFs and completely miss the core point of the idea.     So I try to address the WHAT IFs if I think of them and they can be made fit solely with the intent of trying to keep people from fixating on such things and instead focus on the core idea.

Here that core idea is that really we have very little actual RIGHTS.    We also do not always have equal opportunity simply due to the conditions of our birth.    Artificially trying to insure this is not the case can do damage in the attempt to do good.

Rather than wanting free hand outs, and to subsidize things and to demand that things are a right, when they actually are not.

We should be providing opportunity where possible, and providing education and assistance for people to try to overcome barriers to opportunity.    These should never be forced, but be voluntary.    When you force something to back that force up usually requires TAKING from someone else.    This is a fight to try to make someone equal in opportunity, while you are taking away equality and opportunity from someone else.    Often it may be because they happened to have had great success, and they also may or may not have achieved that success with great effort.

You having a perceived "right" to healthcare, education, etc does not mean you should have the "right" to enter people's homes open up their wallets and take the money out of that wallet you think is necessary to pay for it.    Yet in reality that is exactly what people stating their right for anything they believe they should have for free are asking for.

They are asking for the government to steal from other people to pay for the thing they believe they should have.

It is a world where people increasingly take less and less self-responsibility and instead expect the government to shelter them from responsibility.     This can only be achieved by stepping all over other people, and in most cases things that would be considered criminal acts if they were done by anyone that didn't have the name "government".    Yet that label suddenly makes it okay to be a criminal.    At least as long as you're giving me the "free" things I want and giving me more "rights" to things I want.

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