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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 25 May 2000 23:14:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
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> > There was risk involved, the accident was not my fault, but I should
> > assume the responsibility for the damages?
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> You bear ultimate responsibility for your situation. In every way. To claim
> less is to give up something so valuable that I can't even approach why you
> might want to.
You lost me there - "To claim less is to give up something so valuable that I
can't even approach why you might want to." I have no idea what the comment
means.
> > Not a court in the land would agree.
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> Is this what we're discussing? Is it legal liability or responsibility in • some
> kind of more real sense?
Just stating my case that a person is not always responsible for the risks
that they take by showing a legal example.
> > Yes there is no fault insurance, however, in my example above, my rates would
> > instantly be raised by my insurance company through no fault of my own.
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> Through no fault of your own? What if you hadn't been out driving? What if
> you'd been driving in places where the roadway association assured more • careful
> drivers? What if you didn't make a claim against your insurance?
And your point is? That because I drove, the accident is my fault because I
was in the wrong place and the wrong time?
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> Thinking of your example above, what about the consequences if you'd been
> uninsured? Shouldn't you bear the responsibility for that decision?
If I had been uninsured, that would have been a risk against the laws of the
state of NY, which would be pretty stupid in the first place.
> > > Now, the government as an absorber or moderator of risk is basically
> > > insurance. Right? Insurance is a good thing.
> > >
> > > Why must we all be forced into a particular insurance system, or to have
> > > insurance at all?
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> Was this not worth comment?
All of life is a risk. The government is certainly not the only "absorber or
moderator of risk." Would you consider your parents "insurance?"
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| (...) Right, sorry about that. I mean that to give up ultimate responsibility for your own situation is essentially the same thing as volunteering for a kind of slavery. It's like saying that you're not capable of taking responsibility for your (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Oh, OK, Thanks. :-) (...) Something that struck me while reading Ed's and Larry's responses to all this is that ultimately it's not a matter of need. We _DO_ take moral and financial responsibility for these things. If you sleep around, you (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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