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They died in the accident, leaving behind a critically injured spouse and their kids. The medical bills for any one of the surviving parties dwarf the net asse
by Decathect 9y ago
They died in the accident, leaving behind a critically injured spouse and their kids.
The medical bills for any one of the surviving parties dwarf the net assets of the deceased.
Who pays the remainder?
- subverter 9y agoThere are already solutions available when there's no counter-party or the counter-party is unfit. i.e., uninsured motorist insurance, life insurance, etc. And who's to say the extended family or community wouldn't step up to cover their expenses?
- bjl 9y agoOr, instead of depending on utopic ideals and discredited economic theories, we can just make people buy liability insurance if they want to drive a car.
- subverter 9y agoWe obviously have different ideas about what's utopian and what's not. I think it's utopian to believe a centralized, federal government has all of the necessary knowledge and best intentions to make blanket decisions for hundreds of millions of people. This really goes to prove my initial point in all of this: Why can't we get to a place where you can live somewhere more aligned with your utopian vision, and I can likewise live somewhere more aligned with mine? Why must either of us force our vision on the other?
- bjl 9y agoBecause, under your 'utopia', we never would have had the civil rights movement. Or woman's suffrage. Or gay marriage.
- subverter 9y agoIf that's what you believe my utopia leads to, then you're completely misunderstanding my worldview. The principal of non-aggression means no one would be allowed to enslave or suppress anyone else. Period. Everyone has equal rights: black, female, gay, whatever.
- bjl 9y ago> The principal of non-aggression means no one would be allowed to enslave or suppress anyone else. Except, of course, the wealthy.
- subverter 9y agoNo, sorry, you're confused with our current system of centralized power in the hands of a few who doll out rewards to their crony friends. Who gets the money printed by the Federal Reserve first? Banks, where wealthy bankers then loan the money to others who are wealthy enough to be accepted for the loans. By the time the money reaches the poor and needy, inflation has already taken hold.