More evidence that rights-based ethical systems have flawed foundations.

[richardhutnik]

insomniac17 said:

ithis said:

Man, I know now why some say that Americans seam stupid. They use all their brain power to understand and discuss the things that are being discussed in this thread. Who's rights of what are being violated if the state offers free contraceptions?

Because the state gets its money from all of its citizens, that means that anything it is providing for free is actually paid for by everyone. If you believe that the state is wrongly taking your property (in this case, your money) from you, then your rights are being violated.

And on the notes of rights-based ethics systems, Locke came up.  Which would lead to a Libertarian argument against what Locke also advocated, which was a social contract.  Under the concept of a social contract, taxes are appropriate to charge people who live in a nation.  It would be in like with Oliver Wendell Holmes's quote: ""Taxes are what we pay for civilized society".