Sennianus wrote:Hiddenrun wrote:It's not just the whining about needing socialized medicine, it's the entire sense of entitlement that people seem to have. It should be very simple. If you can't afford it, you shouldn't have it. Period. If someone wants to get it for you, great. I don't happen to care about you at all, and I resent greatly the belief that I should somehow pay for you to access anything you can't get on your own.
Where do you think this notion came from? This lack of self-sufficiency? Are children being too coddled by their parents? Is it wider social conditioning, top down? For those of you living on the public teat, what makes you think you should be doing so?
Break your leg, get cancer, and have your kidney's removed... none of these are your fault, but you lose your job and don't have enough money to afford an operation that is to save your life.
Then we'll discuss this topic.
He's planned for all that. He can take care of himself, he justn't want to spend any of his hard-earned money on ... well, you, for instance, uness you can do something useful for him.