Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Issue 399 Eating oneself to death!!! August12, 2014

Ok this one is similar to the previous, the only difference is that instead of drugs we are talking about another medical condition that we ourselves place ourselves in.  In this case becoming overweight and obese due to our eating habits.  Time to discuss again.

Government should not pay!!!:  Here we go, the government should not pay a single cent toward your health care if you get a disease due to you over eating.  We again must be responsible to ourselves and pay our own way for something that is our own fault.  Government should thus, not pay a single dime while compelling taxpayers to meet the costs. You can have your private healthcare pay for it, a charity, or yourself, no one else.

Splitting hairs again:  As I stated, Libertarians believe in personal responsibility.  And getting fat and needing a forklift just to escape your house is the same as committing slow suicide. You should not have others obliged to pay for your own faults and mistakes in life.  Sure there are exceptions, like those predisposed to diabetes and thus cannot help their condition, but the rest are a nonstarter.  Basically, you must have been born with the disease or genetically predisposed to get the disease to get any aid as this is not a life choice in this case.  Those who become overweight and obese by choice due to their eating habits will not get a thing for they made a choice (in this case it must be directly linked to their physical condition from overeating).

Conclusion:  This again is about making people uncomfortable in their own shoes.  How are we supposed to pay for the life choices of others when we ourselves are struggling?  Government has no right to tax us to help those who place themselves into harm’s way.  Again, I am sorry for being harsh, but you made the decision to make yourself unhealthy, so you have to fix it and hope that someone is charitable enough to possibly help you.     


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