[MD] NHS? No thanks

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Platt]
If a jailed criminal refuses to work I see no moral obligation to provide him
with food and health care. 

[Arlo]
Pirsig would disagree. Passively letting someone starve is no different than
actively pulling an executioners stick.

[Platt]
I see a threat to liberty in any intrusion by the government into private lives.
Our history is a history of government nitpicking away at individual liberty --
resulting the kind of paralysis Pirsig described in Lila.

[Arlo]
Taxation to fund health care for the poor is no more an "intrusion" than
taxation to fund public lands. They are both legitimate functions of
government.

[Platt]
And IMHO a culture that measures value of life above liberty is a truly sick
culture.

[Arlo]
Taxation to fund medical care for the poor is not valuing life above "liberty",
any more than taxation to fund public parks is.

The value of a human life is not measured by his pocketbook, regardless of the
spin you try to put on it.