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Words like "unconditional", "universal", "everyone", "all", etc. absolutely imply that personal responsibility is not a factor. Give me an example of a liberal
by ythn 9y ago
Words like "unconditional", "universal", "everyone", "all", etc. absolutely imply that personal responsibility is not a factor.
Give me an example of a liberal stance of one of the above issues that factors in personal responsibility. Hint: none of them do because universal healthcare* (*except for obese people and drug abusers and other people that didn't take care of their bodies) would be very unpopular. Ditto for all other services/stances.
- lucideer 9y ago> Words like "unconditional", "universal", "everyone", "all", etc. absolutely imply that personal responsibility is not a factor. If you think so, I think you're somewhat missing the point. Or arguing against one that isn't there. To take your assertion to its logical end: - system provides "universal" healthcare - the above system therefore excuses personal responsibility for... healthcare access existing? I'm not really sure where this leads? What you seem to be assuming is that an "irresponsible" actor impinges on service provision by virtue of their irresponsibility. Believe it or not, this is not an assumption rooted in reality. If it were, the US per capita healthcare budget would be much lower than that of France.
- caconym_ 9y agoI'd say that the presence of those words implies a practical desire to avoid throwing out the baby with the bathwater in the name of an absurd moralistic bogeyman invented by the sort of right-wing goblins who e.g. work to defund Planned Parenthood with one hand while pushing moronic abstinence-only sex "education" with the other. It still amazes me how politicians who practically wear their absurd hypocrisies on their sleeves can manipulate entire population segments with this sort of puerile garbage.