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But now your brother won't be dropped when he does fall ill or get cancer. That was a common tactic among insurers. You didn't dot an I correctly on one of your

But now your brother won't be dropped when he does fall ill or get cancer. That was a common tactic among insurers. You didn't dot an I correctly on one of your forms? Dropped. And now that you're dropped, good luck finding another insurer with your "pre-existing condition". Unless your brother is immortal, he will eventually fall ill or suffer an accident. Such is the nature of life. Some people live long & healthy lives, others get cancer at 25. You simply cannot know the future. Shared risk, in the greater scheme of things, is preferable to the alternatives.

viggity 13y ago
That is the thing I can't stand about most liberals, they always think they know what's better for you than you do. Take your nanny state regulations and bother someone without their own brain.
- undoware 13y ago
  I think that is precisely what your interlocutor is doing.
- mahranch 13y ago
  "they always think they know what's better for you than you do. Take your nanny state regulations and bother someone without their own brain." Do you think people should be able to own and have their own nuclear weapons? How about biological weapons? What about murder? Should that be legal? If you said no, then you do agree there needs to be some "nanny state regulations". We only differ on where the line should be drawn. When people "grow up", they realize that the general populace isn't too bright. The world is filled with nutjobs, idiots and crazies. People who are downright evil. People who are sociopaths. Letting the "free market" sort them out is a fairy tale for the young and children. I don't mean to sound condescending or harsh, it's just that I was once a libertarian myself (in my early to mid twenties.) I came to realize what a horrible ideology it was and when you see people making the same mistake you made, you can't help but try to help that person out.
  - viggity 13y ago
    "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - CS Lewis
  - viggity 13y ago
    The ideology of individual liberty and the free market have turned the United States into the most powerful and prosperous nation the world has ever seen. The ideology of "government knows best" has produced the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, the gulags of Soviet Russia, the wholesale slaughter of tens of millions in Mao Zedong's Red China and the pinnacle of oppression: North Korea. I'll let the results speak for themselves.

viggity 13y ago

That is the thing I can't stand about most liberals, they always think they know what's better for you than you do. Take your nanny state regulations and bother someone without their own brain.

undoware 13y ago
I think that is precisely what your interlocutor is doing.
mahranch 13y ago
"they always think they know what's better for you than you do. Take your nanny state regulations and bother someone without their own brain." Do you think people should be able to own and have their own nuclear weapons? How about biological weapons? What about murder? Should that be legal? If you said no, then you do agree there needs to be some "nanny state regulations". We only differ on where the line should be drawn. When people "grow up", they realize that the general populace isn't too bright. The world is filled with nutjobs, idiots and crazies. People who are downright evil. People who are sociopaths. Letting the "free market" sort them out is a fairy tale for the young and children. I don't mean to sound condescending or harsh, it's just that I was once a libertarian myself (in my early to mid twenties.) I came to realize what a horrible ideology it was and when you see people making the same mistake you made, you can't help but try to help that person out.
- viggity 13y ago
  "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - CS Lewis
- viggity 13y ago
  The ideology of individual liberty and the free market have turned the United States into the most powerful and prosperous nation the world has ever seen. The ideology of "government knows best" has produced the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, the gulags of Soviet Russia, the wholesale slaughter of tens of millions in Mao Zedong's Red China and the pinnacle of oppression: North Korea. I'll let the results speak for themselves.