Life, death and communist indoctrination

Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years, 7 months ago to Economics
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Part three of a series. I ask you to put yourself in the position of a person with an illness, whether its chronic or treatable long term. Then imagine someone else choosing what ultimately will be your treatment, or the refusal to treat you.

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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 7 months ago
    Holder admits what I knew all along; the war on tobacco was nothing but a training war; an experiment to see if they could change people's attitudes about smoking.

    Here's the kicker; if you can change an entire country's attitude about smoking through a relentless demonizing campaign, over several generations... you can change their attitude about anything... civil rights... sex... marriage... morality... science... patriotism...
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When my wife and I met almost ten years ago, she mentioned something about having traveled for a lot for "a large client" when she was at Arnold and Porter. She asked me, "what do you think about tobacco?" I said it felt like in the 90s they became everyone's favorite whipping boy, mostly unfairly. She admitted the large client was a tobacco company. She actually met some of the politicians who saw the suing them as a windfall of free money to help them get elected to higher office.

    According to her, the tobacco companies agreed to fund gov't anti-smoking campaigns partly b/c they knew they would have the paradoxical effect of making smoking seem cooler.

    She also worked for the federal gov't very briefly and for the WI state legislature. From everything I've heard, the gov't is half as smart and influential as you think it is.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 10 years, 7 months ago
    “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”


    ― Ayn Rand
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They don't. There are still money and other media of exchange. There are still knowledgeable people who want the money and an ecosystem of vendors of tools, etc. I'm not trying to be snide. I really don't know what you're talking about.

    Maybe you're just saying it would not be wise to rely on PPACA or any gov't program to take care of any need. I agree wholeheartedly with that.
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But when that free market system is stripped away, and there is no incentive to keep achieving for your own and your family's, (if you have one), benefit, and you're dealing in triage at best, what do you think will happen? It already does. Importance is placed upon the most "mileage" out of a potential recipient's benefit and long term use all the time. How is that different? Why does someone else get to make the choice about the value if your wife's life, or that of a parent's or child's? Obviously other factors must come into play, but this isn't a conspiracy theory. Read Agenda 21.
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