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I don’t think these things can be compartmentalized to neat black and white boxes. The healthcare system bears a heavy burden as a direct result of people doin
by matheweis 4y ago
I don’t think these things can be compartmentalized to neat black and white boxes.
The healthcare system bears a heavy burden as a direct result of people doing whatever they want. Ask an ER doc what they spend their time doing.
How about vaccines? Is that in the class of inalienable right to do what they want, or (dis)respecting the rights of others?
These things are often interconnected and have hidden costs and/or benefits to the wider society even if it seems to only affect the individual at first glance.
- plugger 4y ago> The healthcare system bears a heavy burden as a direct result of people doing whatever they want. Ask an ER doc what they spend their time doing. And the criminal justice system bears an expensive burden by treating these activities as crimes. And I'd wager that cost is higher when compared to healthcare costs
- rendall 4y agoFar, far higher, especially when all indirect and social costs of a punitive approach are accounted. Even well-funded, high-quality, competent preventative health-care is much cheaper, such as counseling, education, nutrition, child care, poverty prevention, even housing. Prison itself could really lean into redemption and reformation over grim revenge and rape. I'm libertarian inclined, and I feel that these costs are essential to maintaining a stable, prosperous society.
- rendall 4y agoWhat I read here sounds like disagreement, but has no actual points of disagreement. Could it be that we actually agree?