Another one o' them smoking ban threads....

[IsiliRunite]

If you were to run through your house and clip your living-room table, consequently making the vase sitting no that table fall and shatter, is your brother the one who gets hit with the belt?

Additionally, I never signed off on a war. I'm actually what you would call an isolationist.

I'm losing a father to cigarettes, and I have already lost a mother to the habit, but for me to sit around and act like it is okay for the rest of you to pay for their mistakes in any way is absurd. What happened to accountability?

and you guys are gonna come at me with an argument about some little boy who couldn't get health care coverage for his minor dental cavity and ended up dying.

That sucks. That is awful, and should have never happened. Maybe if we rehumanized ourselves into compassionate, considerate beings instead of isolated individuals. There is a people solution to the healthcare issue, and I'm a firm believer that people's action in the field would produce more results than government. By creating universal healthcare we are saying, "Hey, a lot of us are really greedy and selfish, but that is okay, because instead of changing our priorities and day-to-day actions, we humans can create a bigger government to make sure none of us are negatively affected by humans." Which, obviously, does not make sense.

Universal healthcare is a programme that reroutes HOW humans do not act humanely, forcing their actions to become humane and potentially punishing those who act perfectly humanely. Why not make our actions more humane in the first place? That is something that would address more worldly concerns than just healthcare. I guess its just too easy to blame some white corporation CEO for the problems in the world than looking inward and taking some responsibility for why the world is not perfect.