RE: Obama care
July 19, 2012 at 9:56 pm
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2012 at 10:43 pm by Darth.)
(July 19, 2012 at 2:25 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: The thing us Brits are most proud of is our health service that is free to all at point of use.paid for by national insurance.
Thought a lot of you guys were up in arms because your government pays for people to go to homeopathy.
C.W, its not that people don't want to help out, it's that they are forced to help out, there is a difference. What if they don't want to help a particular person? Most want to help kids (I'd always keep kids on it), but helping out an adult who has an unhealthy lifestyle in that way isn't really helping them, it removes additional incentives for them to help themselves, they don't bear all the costs of their actions.
I like being able to discriminate in who I give money to, a guy comes up with his hands out and belongs to a racist organisation or something? I don't want to give him a cent. And likewise, some people will find my views offensive, I shouldn't be able to enlist the government's aid in taking money from them to give to me. And yes Moros, everyone be allowed to shun me and refuse to even speak to me, deal with me...
Moros, herd immunity? Sure, it's great, it helps me and everybody else at the same time (yah!) but you shouldn't force it upon people. The first person to come at me with a needle when I haven't given consent is getting punched in the face. It's not that I'm against helping people, I'm against being forced to help people.
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