just for the record, if you do have employer provided health coverage and you're in a group plan w/someone who does do those things, you will pay for it because your premiums will go up. you will pay more for the exact same coverage because of someone else's health problems. at least w/ universal healthcare we'd all be covered and it would mitigate some of those expenses.

Ok libertarians, why stop there?

- "Why should my tax dollars pay to put out your housefire if you accidentally left the gas on?"

- "Why should my tax dollars pay to track down the guy who robbed your house if you left the door unlocked?"

- "Why should my tax dollars pay for road repairs on your street if you hit a light pole?"


Also, forehead slap, luxury items like alcohol and cigarettes have extra taxes levied on them for a reason.

You are a tool if you think that everyone that requires a liver or lung transplant needs it because they have had a disregard for their own health. My next door neighbor, a 16 year old girl, is getting a double lung transplant soon (we hope) and she has never smoked in her whole short life (neither has her mom).

As far as Dubya and the right-wing assholes, they believe in the sanctity of life until birth. After that they do not give a shit!

Goddamned stupid poor people! Get with the lernin' already!

You do have a right to choose whether or not you want to be a member of society. You can choose to either leave the US, or not pay taxes and become forcibly removed from society.
You also have the choice to not make any money and thus pay no taxes. The money you use is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, so if you want to live here you gotta pay your dues.

If you choose to live here and I don't like you, can I refuse to pay one 300,000,000th of my taxes? You could always move to Switzerland so I don't have to pay for all the benefits you get as a citizen.

Because America has decided it's not important to teach teenagers about safe sex.

What does a pro-consequencer have to say to that?

HHAHAHHAA!

If you choose to drive on a rainy day, lose control of your car and slam into a bridge barrier, crippling yourself and going into a coma, at which point you are instantaneously released from your job, because they don't have any legal reason to keep you employed and can put you in "lay off status", then the health insurance provider will fight every claim that crosses it's desk and you are left in financial ruins because you can't even come out of the coma to defend yourself.

hey fuck it man, i didn't choose to drive on a rainy day. It's all YOUR fault.

and Morgan i walk into my daughter's room every night, kiss her good night, tuck her in and say "Thank you god for making my ex wife unable to not spread teh legz".

I think it's called compassion. Some human beings have it. Some obviously do not.

Ahaha! Love it. +1

A) They still drink, they still smoke, they still have sex, no matter what people say. Teenagers have always had sex. The teen pregnancy rate in the 1950s was higher than it is now. No amount of anything will convince kids not to have sex, and I don't see why they shouldn't if they do it safely. But just like with adults, shit happens, and when it does, abortion is a legal, viable place to turn, especially if the girl is emotionally incapable of raising a child. There are 35-year-old women who are just as emotionally unstable as teen girls and have no place raising children. Foster homes are full, and even those that aren't are shitholes that emotionally destroy children, and even lead to increased pregnancy rates* due to that same emotional instability, making the circle exceedingly vicious.

B) Since the fuck when have adults been the shining light of good decision-making? It's the biggest myth of all time that just because someone turns from 17 to 18 or from 20 to 21 they're automatically endowed with heretofore unknown responsibility and self-control. 70-year-olds make just as bad decisions as those made by teenagers. Let's bury that fucking myth. Please.

*Carpenter, C., Clyman, B., Davidson, A., & Steiner, J. (2001). The association of foster care or kinship care with adolescent sexual behavior and first pregnancy. Pediatrics 108, e46