2010/5/30 Bob W <[email protected]>: > > I don't believe buckling up should be mandatory, any more than wearing > cycling helmets should be mandatory. I also think it should be legal for > adults to use class A drugs if they want to. Adults are responsible for > their own safety; parents and relatives are responsible for the safety of > children, not the government or groups of well-meaning do-gooders. > > The government, medical profession etc. should provide information about the > effects of these activities on our health and let us decide what we want to > do about it, provided we're only affecting ourselves. > > This is the classic liberal position on such matters.
Pretty neat if you ignore the cost for and toll on society from such thinking. If I was an ambulance paramedic like one of my acquaintances, I wouldn't want to scrape your brains off the steering wheel, if you had no health insurance and ruined yourself beyond repair, I wouldn't want to be the one to decide that since you have no medical plan, you are now going to have to go home and croak, if I was your friend or relative, I wouldn't want to see you fall apart over the pain of having caused the death of your own child - seen it, when I was a kid, our neighbour 6 houses down killed his daughter backing up a small rented forklifter against her and then into the garage wall; poor man ended up hanging himself - I could go on forever but if you choose what you believe to be an educated choice what then turns out to be just too damn dumb, there will always be someone else suffering the consequences with you or for you and this is exactly where that kind of thinking becomes terminally selfish cheers ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
