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    A right that cannot be exercised or waived by its holder ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Multiple rival philosophical theories of human rights can support the inclusion of health as a human right.

    A right that cannot be exercised or waived by its holder fails the core criterion of will theories, making health an unsuitable candidate under that framework.

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    • 1.Will theories define rights by agents' capacity to make autonomous choices about their exercise and waiver.
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    • 2.Health often cannot be waived without self-harm, limiting meaningful autonomous control over this supposed right.
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    • 3.If a 'right' lacks waivability, it functions as a duty or constraint rather than a right properly understood.
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    • 1.Not all rights require waivability—many inalienable rights (dignity, freedom from torture) are non-waivable by design.
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    • 2.Health rights can be exercised through choice of treatment, providers, and medical decisions even if waiving health itself is impossible.
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    • 3.Will theory need not require waivability of the underlying good, only control over claiming and enforcing the right itself.
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