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@JorduSpeaks If insurance/care is truly universal, then the terms should be synonymous. However, since insurance doesn't cover everything...

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@kevinsparakeet I'm not sure I actually grasp the difference. How can healthcare be universal is not everyone has some coverage?

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@JorduSpeaks Insurance sometimes hinders access to healthcare, and sometimes allows for it. But how do you have one without t'other?

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@JorduSpeaks Also, how does lack of healthcare not violate human liberty by preventing people from "doing stuff" and also from living?

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@JorduSpeaks Many poor countries want nukes for that very reason. Technically, not having nukes does put them at a distinct disadvantage.

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@kevinsparakeet I certainly don't think it is as important as food, education, etc. Probably there should be a second-tier term...

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@JorduSpeaks So would you consider healthcare a fundamental human right? Its absence causes millions of dead every year at home and abroad

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@kevinsparakeet If it exists I haven't heard it. Weird, because such a term would be useful. People get hung up by "basic human rights."

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@kevinsparakeet The basic necessities of life change over time, and as we become more dependent on tech. Broadband will be more important.

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@kevinsparakeet These days it ehn't enough to just survive. Human rights now also include things you need for equality of opportunity

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@kevinsparakeet ...for things needed for equality of opportunity in addition to just survival. "Secondary human rights" if you will.

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@kevinsparakeet I think their def. of a human right is anything required for true equality between all countries and people.

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@JDspeeder1 Fair enough. Still, there's something cathartic in sucking at something as hard as I suck at MMA.

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@kevinsparakeet Like, will there ever be equality of opportunities while I can access Wikipedia and some Somali kid can't?

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Skipped MMA class today to hurry home and install Snow Leopard. I think my doing that means I am no longer qualified to participate in MMA.

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Student essay on why drunk driving is bad because, like, he totally got his license suspended for driving drunk and that was such a drag.

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@kevinsparakeet I'm here for the whole "Get thee (Mary) to a nunnery" thing.

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In Mobile. Huzzah. I don't have anyone's phone number anymore, but you might have mine.

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Grading an essay about the vaccination "controversy." Hooray.

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@kevinsparakeet Did you get the vaccine through the school you teach at, or what?

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@rodanoS I download their paper as a text file, then write comments on the paper and e-mail it back to them. I don't speak to them directly.

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Tutored a Japanese student today. She was from Osaka, so we discussed that city and UNIQLO and okonomiyaki. Good times.

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LSAT scores are in, and I got a pretty good one, so that's something.

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@JorduSpeaks Pretty sure it does. To my credit, I did raise some objections to his point, but only to make his point more developed.

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Just responded to an online tutoring essay titled "I STAND FIRM ON THE USE OF CELL PHONES IN THEATER" [sic]. I really hate this job.

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Just responded to an online tutoring essay in favor of cell phone use in theaters. And I had to help him make his essay more convincing.

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@JorduSpeaks I didn,t even know veins could collapse. So did they just not take your blood?

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Donated blood. Blood lady didn't put the needle in far enough so blood spurted everywhere. My second favorite pair of pants were a casualty.

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Reading a paper feat. woman's graphic descriptions of being beaten by her husband would be hard enough, but essay is also totally unreadable

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@nosh276 Happy belated birthday then. What'd you guys do?

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