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Governments should not be concerned with the individual's health. I would substitute the word Liberty for health.
Government is of little worth if it doesn't concern itself with sparing individuals from violent aggression in all spheres (save love).
Surely you would agree, if you give it a moment's reflection. Perhaps you are thinking of medical health? Even so, a government does have such duty though it serves it legitimately, and best, only by ensuring the generalised easy running of capitalism.
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Imagine a world ...in which the principle of private ownership of the means of production is fully realized, in which there are no institutions hindering the mobility of capital, labor, and commodities, in which the laws, the courts, and the administrative officers do not discriminate against any individual or groups of individuals whether native or alien. Imagine a state of affairs in which governments are devoted exclusively to the task of protecting the individual's life, health, and property against violent aggression. In such a world the frontiers are drawn on the maps, but they do not hinder anybody from the pursuit of what he thinks will make him more prosperous. No individual is interested in the expansion of the size of his nation's territory, as he cannot derive any gain from such an aggrandizement. Conquest does not pay and war becomes obsolete.
