Previously, I wrote the article, “The first step in health care reform: recognizing that health care is not a right.”
Health care, at least, is related (though not equated) to the life of a person, one of the enumerated rights in the Declaration of Independence.
As an example of how radically the Western understanding of rights versus privileges has changed since 1776, Canada’s national broadcaster, CBC, featured an episode entitled “A/C as Human Right” on The Current on July 16, 2010.
