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What rubbish! Let speech be free, and let people make up their own minds about things.
by masterleep 11y ago
What rubbish! Let speech be free, and let people make up their own minds about things.
- t_t_t_TTT_t_t_t 11y agoAgreed! Bring back the cigarette commercials.
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- masterleep 11y agoI'm glad we agree on that.
- tosseraccount 11y agoThey're better than those AARP commercials.
- wpietri 11y agoWhen someone values their personal notions and pet theories over the addiction and death of millions, it mainly looks creepy to me.
- masterleep 11y agoNot a big fan of the Enlightenment, eh?
- paviva 11y agoI'm a doctor, and very into free speech, but the problem here is that in healthcare, patients' choices are paid with other people money.
- tosseraccount 11y agoWhat if they pay with their own money?
- masterleep 11y agoSo compound one error with another?
- jtuente 11y agoAs a healthy, single, white male who hasn't had a threatening reason to visit a doctor, This. I probably wouldn't have health insurance right now if it weren't for the Affordable Care Act (even though my employer pays most of it). Sure that could bite me in the ass if something were to happen to me, but I'm comfortable with that risk and have family to help me out. There's no good reason for me to "outsource" my healthcare options.
- Archio 11y ago> Sure that could bite me in the ass if something were to happen to me, but I'm comfortable with that risk Has it ever occurred to you don't have much control over that risk, and that you are a human being that like every other can become sick for no reason at all? > and have family to help me out Has it ever occurred to you that many people in the United States do not have family to help them out?
- Yakimoto 11y agoHas it ever occurred to you that you have a ton of control over your general health and can protect yourself from physical injury extremely well? Has it ever occurred to you that many people in the United State don't have legs?
- Archio 11y agoI am in my early twenties. I exercise regularly, I don't drink to excess, I don't smoke, I eat well, and I don't do any dangerous activities. That means I probably won't break my leg or die of obesity-related conditions. However, it damn well could be that I could get a disease or condition that no one can prevent. No one has any business pretending otherwise.
- rtl49 11y agoIt's a nice sentiment, and I wish we could live in such a world. Unfortunately, this approach opens up the field for some rather obscene exploitation of prevalent biases of reasoning that even educated people are susceptible to.