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Originally Posted by Willravel
This is simply incorrect. If you were injured and paramedic were touched, there would be no legal violation of your person in treating you.
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Only if I'm unconscious or incoherent and cannot refuse. If I am conscious and coherent and say that I don't want treatment, then he has to honor my right to refuse treatment, and is liable if he does not.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
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This photo is an example of the person not choosing the apropriate clothing for their body weight, rather than their body weight in and of itself. There's a difference
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Obesity is a disease. Those who are clinically obese are ordered to seek treatment just as someone who has a flu. It's something to cure. While obesity clearly causes many health conditions, it is in and of itself a health condition.
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I would see ordering a competant adult to seek treatment for obesity (in themselves) as an abuse of governmental power. I don't see government's rightful role in society as protecting an adult from himself.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
I never said you introduced it, I said this isn't the thread for it. Please, no threadjacking.
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I really don't want to talk about universal healthcare that much either, I was trying to make a point about keeping it out of the discussion. Perhaps I could have worded it better.