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This presumes you're the only one at risk here- you aren't. In a modern society, risk is shared. When you build a home in the middle of a flood plain, you're p
by mabbo 9y ago
This presumes you're the only one at risk here- you aren't. In a modern society, risk is shared.
When you build a home in the middle of a flood plain, you're putting the emergency services workers who have to try to help you at risk. You're having the city build infrastructure that has to be repaired/replaced every time there's a disaster. And we all know full well it will be the poor who live in these areas and lose their homes when disaster strikes- putting themselves onto welfare and bankruptcy that the rest of us wind up paying for.
There is no such thing as individual risk anymore. Welcome to the 21st century.
- eternauta3k 9y agoIt's interesting how these social goods end up restricting freedom. Like how you have to restrict immigration if you have a social security net.
- microcolonel 9y agoOr how single payer health insurance encourages the public to endorse policies which restrict people's freedom to take risks (dietary, recreational, humanitarian), even good risks (like entering said floodplain to help people who made the poor decision of building there and staying during hurricane season).