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> How can you prevent people from harming themselves to qualify for compensation? Is it impossible to imagine that some process could be vetted closely by doct
by logicalmonster 4y ago
> How can you prevent people from harming themselves to qualify for compensation?
Is it impossible to imagine that some process could be vetted closely by doctors to only apply this system to people with verified terminal illnesses, not to people that injure themselves intentionally?
> If I said I'll pay $1,000,000 to anyone who drinks a shot of bleach, certainly it's well within anyone's rights to drink bleach.
1) I'm not suggesting I'm happy with the idea of anybody being paid to harm themselves, but at the same time, what right does any human have to control anybody else's body?
2) People already pay athletes millions of dollars for a pretty large chance of brain damage and other injuries intentionally, and society cheers that on with roaring approval. People take on very risky jobs for a very slight increase in pay. People are paid to get blown up in literal war zones for pennies. Why is self harm for money ok in some contexts but not others?
- bastawhiz 4y ago> what right does any human have to control anybody else's body? You can do anything you want to your body. Someone shouldn't be able to pay you to do dangerous things to your body. You can consent to whatever you want, you just shouldn't be able to be compensated for it. > Why is self harm for money ok in some contexts but not others? I'd love to hear you name a profession that's so risky that, as the ancestor comment suggests, it should only be available to people with terminal illness.