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Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch as House Burns
October 5, 2010 at 4:07 pm
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Firefighters Watch House Burn
So yeah, the fire fighters in this county (Tennessee, go figure) only will only put out a fire at your house if you pay their yearly fee. I'm all for capitalism & a well-regulated free market, but I think it's a horrible idea for healthcare, emergency services & infrastructure.
What do you guys think?
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Quote:The man offered to pay them the fee right then and there, or however much it took to get them to put out the fire, but was refused. The man lives in a county that has no fire protection. The nearby town offers fire protection to non-residents on a per-contract basis.
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RE: Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch as House Burns
October 5, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Protection must be free! Fuck capitalism (In this situation)! We can't have this! I'm taking over the world and changing it, it's official! 
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RE: Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch as House Burns
October 5, 2010 at 6:26 pm
(October 5, 2010 at 4:07 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: Firefighters Watch House Burn
So yeah, the fire fighters in this county (Tennessee, go figure) only will only put out a fire at your house if you pay their yearly fee. I'm all for capitalism & a well-regulated free market, but I think it's a horrible idea for healthcare, emergency services & infrastructure.
What do you guys think?
Also:
Quote:The man offered to pay them the fee right then and there, or however much it took to get them to put out the fire, but was refused. The man lives in a county that has no fire protection. The nearby town offers fire protection to non-residents on a per-contract basis. Really, this is the next logical step for those who believe that insist that a privatised version of any necessary service for the community is the best way to go. If you think it's good to deny poor people life-saving but expensive operations (especially when similar models have been shown to work in, well, every other developed nation) you might as well support shit like this.
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RE: Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch as House Burns
October 5, 2010 at 7:02 pm
This is why i believe that protectionism is necessary for all infrastructure.
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RE: Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch as House Burns
October 5, 2010 at 7:03 pm
(October 5, 2010 at 4:07 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: What do you guys think?
I think something like that shouldn't exist in a modern society that values human life or the lives of its own citizens.
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RE: Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch as House Burns
October 5, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Quote:What do you guys think?
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RE: Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch as House Burns
October 5, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Exactly why I am not a libertarian anymore. As soon as I realised the unavoidable problems raised by disaster situations in Libertarianism I couldn't support it anymore.
*This is the part where the libertarian suggests (naively) that private charity is sufficient*
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RE: Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch as House Burns
October 5, 2010 at 8:06 pm
(October 5, 2010 at 7:18 pm)theVOID Wrote: Exactly why I am not a libertarian anymore. As soon as I realised the unavoidable problems raised by disaster situations in Libertarianism I couldn't support it anymore.
*This is the part where the libertarian suggests (naively) that private charity is sufficient*
Yeah, I'd really like to see what Adrian, ultra-capitalist that he is, thinks of this.
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RE: Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch as House Burns
October 5, 2010 at 8:32 pm
[sarcasm]It's okay. It reallly is. This man clearly wasn't rich enough to be treated like a human being.[/sarcasm]
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
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RE: Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch as House Burns
October 5, 2010 at 11:04 pm
(October 5, 2010 at 8:06 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: (October 5, 2010 at 7:18 pm)theVOID Wrote: Exactly why I am not a libertarian anymore. As soon as I realised the unavoidable problems raised by disaster situations in Libertarianism I couldn't support it anymore.
*This is the part where the libertarian suggests (naively) that private charity is sufficient*
Yeah, I'd really like to see what Adrian, ultra-capitalist that he is, thinks of this.
Me too.
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