When civil government creates a new category of “rights” that cost money, and the owner of the “rights” has none, this can mean only one thing: the government must force unwilling citizens to finance those new rights. Which implies the evocation of the state’s ever-present threat of violence: the doctors and pharmacists will either be pressed into service by force, or the sick guy’s neighbor’s will be taxed to pay his medical bills. There is no third way. . . .
Everyone knows what governments do to those who defy their commands: they seize your assets and confiscate your house, and if you refuse to be forced out of your home, they will send in the police. If you refuse to be arrested, they will escalate the use of force. Ultimately, if you stand your ground long enough, they will kill you.
This is why we should be very, very careful about calling nice ideas fundamental rights. Civil government, ultimately, is violence.
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