At the risk of being called an Obama-loving, hippy, fuck, don't you think that societies should look after people? I mean, what if you've got a person who has worked in a physical job and develops a musculoskeletal condition and needs treatment? Should they just be thrown on the scrap-heap or should their only recourse be legal action against all the employers they've ever had?Grey Day for Elcia said:Better yet, ditch healthcare systems all together. I really, really don't understand why we have them. You give the greedy assholes more money than you will ever use on healthcare, then some of it is used to help strangers who may or may not have caused their own problems. If people want to be in that sort of a system, let them. But in my country everyone pays for basic healthcare through taxes. That's bullshit.
Example: I attempted suicide and ended up in hospital for a month or so. Why should anyone else have to pay for my treatment? I made that choice. Same with smokers; someone smokes, knowing it'll fuck them, gets sick and then has everyone pay for their care.
I mean to say; if you don't have a society that has looking after people as a kind of categorical imperative, won't you just have a bitter land of recrimination that benefits nobody apart from lawyers?
OT: Discriminating against fat people is fine because they're fat. Like, you wouldn't let a massive, 40 stone, man onto a plane because he weighs 40 stone. It's not like you're not letting a person on to a plane because he's of low caste and might dishonour the other passengers.