I mean, should they? It seems like you're asking rhetorically, but in a world where society bears the cost of firefighting, it doesn't seem unreasonable to outl

I mean, should they? It seems like you're asking rhetorically, but in a world where society bears the cost of firefighting, it doesn't seem unreasonable to outlaw Christmas trees on pain of not fighting Christmas tree fires. Once again, my original point was not that people should be left to die, but rather that it doesn't seem horrifically immoral, as the parent was suggesting, to believe that people should have to face the consequences of choices they knowingly make, especially where there are real costs to real people to mitigating those consequences.