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It is not the case that Rights generate correlative duties, but no identifiable duty-bearer can be obligated to deliver health as a biological state to another person.
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Rights to health can correlate with duties to provide conditions, resources, and care that causally promote health, not guarantee it.
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Duty-bearers (states, physicians, insurers) are identifiable and can be held accountable for actions within their control.
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The claim conflates 'delivering a biological state' with 'providing reasonable means to health'—duties target the latter, not former.
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Health outcomes depend on genetics, behavior, and luck—factors beyond any duty-bearer's control or reasonable obligation.
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Correlative duties must specify identifiable agents with capacity to perform them; health as a state lacks this precision.
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Confusing duties to provide healthcare access with duties to guarantee health outcomes creates impossible moral standards.
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