08-27-2015, 09:13 AM
(08-27-2015, 07:10 AM)GodHatesBengals Wrote: I'm pretty sure that public safety includes preventing the spread of disease. Also death.
Do you give a rats ass if the person down the street catches tuberculosis? How about if the person down the street has treatable cancer? Is it okay for him to die as long as he wasn't shot in a parking lot by some gangster? You act as though the idea of violence in the streets is awful, but seem entirely uninterested if anyone drops dead from anything other than being the victim of a crime. Care to explain this inconsistency?
What inconsistency?
I have a vested interest in the public safety in my community. Drug dealers, breaking and entering, gun violence, etc. all decrease property values and represent a possible threat to my family.
I have no vested interest whatsoever in the health and well-being of other people that I am an no way, shape, or form financially responsible for. I am responsible for my family, and so I can also take measures to ensure our health and well-being. We eat sensibly, exercise, and make other choices that I have no control over anyone outside of my family, nor should I.
