Quote of the Day – “Oh HELL Yes!” Edition
Via Vanderleun:
Now, I really don’t care if you overeat, smoke like a chimney, hump like a bunny or forget to lock the safety mechanism on your pistol as you jam it in your waistband. Fine by me. And as a laissez-faire social-libertarian live-and-let-live kind of person, I would never under normal circumstances condemn anyone for any of the behaviors listed above. That is: Until the bill for your stupidity shows up in my mailbox. Then suddenly, I’m forced to care about what you do, because I’m being forced to pay for the consequences.
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Instituting a single-payer universal health-care system, or even a watered-down version as the government is now proposing, compels me to become a meddlesome busybody in your personal choices. And it will compel you to become a meddlesome busybody in everyone else’s personal choices. It forever douses the beautiful flame of individualism — freedom to act without interference, just so long as you are ready to accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
(Emphasis in original.)
That’s from Zomblog – Why America Hates Universal Health Care: The Real Reason. Read the whole thing. (Some accompanying photos are very NSFW.) Burn it into your frontal lobes with a soldering pencil – but don’t send me the resulting doctor bills.