Why is a passion for base jumping more/less of a condition/affliction than doing heroin or getting cancer? What about people who take dangerous jobs, what if th

Why is a passion for base jumping more/less of a condition/affliction than doing heroin or getting cancer? What about people who take dangerous jobs, what if the job isn't so much dangerous, but the person did something stupid/against regulation on the job? What about teenagers doing reckless shit because they are too inexperienced to know better? What about STD's, those are more or less a choice to get. Kids are elective, why don't we tax pregnancy? Should we have drug insurance you need for doing illegal drugs? How would you feel if you had kids and one of your kids took up base jumping? What if they took up high school football? Once you've carved out exceptions, you've now changed the frame to something horrible. Systemic problems (obesity, drug use, mental health) probably deserve government meddling, but your first sentence is exactly the problem with conservative points of view. Conservatives can't put themselves in the position of doing something reckless and therefore feel they deserve to be better off (more money in their pocket) than the other person, until something bad happens to them. "Fuck you I got mine" is the liberal characterization of this attitude.