all that is meaningless if you cannot defend yourself. it is instinct and a right for every living being to protect themself.
but hey cant even use a screwdriver to protect myself.
btw the healthinsurance thing is overrated.
i am forced to buy a healtinsurance, that i dont need.
paying 100's of euros each year. but since 2003 i went 2 the doctor twice.
1 for std test which i had to pay for myself, the other for a minor broken nose. which cost about 50-100 dollars.
yet i pay 1000's a dollar each year so that people can smoke and become fat get cancer and get treated on my dime?
is that freedom, me paying thousands of dollars a year so smokers who get cancer, and fat people who get sick can go to doctor. while i love a healthy livestyle? yeah i feel free for this health insurance crap.
can even get my multiple time broken nose corrected because it is considered a cosmetic surgery. since i breathe just fine out of it.
but some douche bag can go around smoking and destroying his live on my dime.
btw std test are free for teh gays, because they are in what you call a risk group.
but for me they are not?
so they can take their healthcare system and shove it up their ***.
what pisses me off more, the amount of tax they collect on alcohol and tabaco is not used in the healthcare industry.
yet i know a guy who got alcohol poisoning 6 times in a year. he had to go to hospital 6 times most of em where an overnight stay. who pays for that. healthy people like me who take care of our health.
yeah freedom! me paying hard earned money so people can destroy their health on my dime!
need to adress your other issues, but yeah im to lazy. and some you are 100% right
Freedom is not what Thrilled is looking for, or even Jimmy. Any good dictionary, even
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce recognizes that freedom or liberty involves actual choice available to an intelligent person. When you come to a fork in the road, or a roundabout say, you can make that decision about where you will go from there.
Offhand, it seems to me that people who love "socialism" or other top-down planned economic systems, consider "freedom" to be the privilege to sit on your bottomside and have something handed to you. "More Freedom" in the comparison is simple better provisions by the establishment.
I believe the stories we're being told about how much better more socialist countries' provisions are, in the examples cited, are inherently false arguments, philosophically-speaking, but also are not factual. Propaganda read from someone who disregards the actual facts in creating the website page, or the news article.
Logically, the argument is also false because of the assumption that what "'Merika" does is not socialist. Utah is an example of an extremely "socialist" State, I think largely because of the socialist nature of Mormonism, regardless of what a lot of people assume about Mormonism. King Benjamin, the fictional character of the Book of Mormon, was a socialist. Most Mormons consider his speech about caring for the poor and one another as something other than socialism, and may note that the sort of charity advocated is "voluntary", which is factually different from European ideals of "socialism" which assume a role for the government as the primary care-giver. At least Mormonism makes it a personal obligation for those who can help others. But it still looks at the world as comprised of two classes, and assigns the "haves" the responsibility to care for the "have-nots".
So I observe that Utah is "socialist" because in addition to State charities, there is the very significant Church charity, which also functions as a societal leveler, inserting a sort of ideological system of governance called a "Church" which is also "elitist", and also functions by accruing controlling interests in land, business enterprises, and banks, and a sort of "tax" in incomes of the individuals.
European socialism is a politically successful sort of fascism which "connects" the leadership of government with the leadership of business. Mormonism draws on the same class of successful elites to staff it's Church, and justifies it's existence by pointing to the services and goods it redistributes to the dependent feudal class, along with the societal values it passes down from on high.
Freedom is still entirely another subject.