(January 13, 2014 at 4:39 am)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote:Quote:A body isn't a person. It doesn't deserve respect or disrespect. Somebody hurting themselves is a victimless crime.
Not strictly true in a state where one has state funded welfare, like the UK. The NHS is spending countless millions on treating complications as a result of obesity. The medical victim is the person making themselves obese. But financially we're all suffering as a result.
That's the fault of the system then. You set it up to allow the treatment of preventable illness, don't be upset when people take advantage of it.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
