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one thing i do not understand is this idea that seems to be shared amongst more conservative folk that others only respond to coercion or pressure from outside--so that people will all smoke or all drink or all be overweight unless there is some outside Penalty that kicks in to punish them for doing it. you see it all the time---this nonsense about "lifestyle choices" above works on that assumption. so you'd think that folk with this condescending christian notion of other people--not themselves of course--oppose universal health care because it removes some fictive "moral hazard"
following that logic, you'd think that places with universal health care would have obesity rates higher than the united states.
but strangely the opposite is the case.
so how does that work exactly?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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