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Originally Posted by dogzilla
There's a fair amount of medical care in this country that is the direct result of people making poor lifestyle choices. Problems related to obesity, smoking, alcohol, drugs, random sex, etc are the direct result of lifestyle choices. If someone makes a lifestyle choice with bad consequences, I should not have to pay for that.
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Again with the individual vs the society. Maybe you're right, maybe in a perfect world where every individual is isolated from the bad decisions of others you shouldn't have to pay for that. We don't live in that world though. Take the person who make bad decisions about random sex and gets an STD. They can't afford to get the necessary treatment because you don't want to pay for it. Maybe they don't even know they have an STD. Maybe their sex isn't so random and the people they're having sex with think this is someone they can trust. Those people get infected too. Maybe this person, because they can't afford testing but still want to have random sex, just plain lies to the people they have sex with. Maybe they even forge test results. It's just herpes after all, nothing serious. Anyway, the point is, this is just as much for the society as it is for the individual. Keeping other people healthy keeps
me healthy (this is the whole concept behind vaccines), and keeping them healthy also keeps them acting as otherwise productive members of society.