believes that merely being born is not the cutoff point for support for human life and that toddlers born to poor rural families should get the medical care they need and deserve.<\/a><\/p>\nThe libertarian lie in response to this is that a state social safety net that guarantees poor children the health care they need is somehow crippling to the ability of the libertarian to show \u201ccharity\u201d. The core lie is that \u201cmy\u201d money is being taken \u201cat gunpoint\u201d for \u201ccharity\u201d and that the world is a much better place when desperate parent have to busk on the internet in the hope that the libertarian is in a mood to kick five bucks into a GoFundMe to stave off the choice between a little girl dying of an expensive disease or the family living under an overpass.<\/p>\n
But the reality is this: health care is not charity. That kid has a *right* to health care as a matter of justice, not charity, just as she has a right to life. And justice *is* a matter for the state. It is the state\u2019s entire job to secure justice. Libertarian \u201ccharity\u201d is largely a matter of narcissism. What matters to the Libertarian who makes the argument above is not the child with the medical issue or the good of the family. What matter is that the Libertarian get the credit and have the Good Feels for throwing his dime in the GoFundMe. The kid can die for all he cares\u2013especially if the state takes his money in taxes to help save the kid.<\/p>\n
But, in fact, the kid has a right to treatment in simple justice and the state has the duty to ensure that justice\u2013and should therefore have the power to enforce that justice with a healthcare system that helps that little girl live and flourish in health.<\/p>\n
The core problem with Libertarianism and the central lie it enshrines is the proposition that man was made for the law\u2013specifically property law\u2013and not the law for man. The libertarian prioritizes the conditional right to property over the absolute right to life. That\u2019s why Libertarianized conservatives whoop with glee and shout \u201cLet him die!\u201d rather than them have to have a buck taken out of their paycheck:<\/p>\n