[ExI] Yet another health care debate.

[Damien Broderick]

At 07:55 PM 9/23/2008 -0700, Fred Moulton wrote:

>On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 18:31 -0700, Lee Corbin wrote:

> > I'll even claim that in a nation of millions, (does the reader
> > really know how big that is?), it is probably optimal for the
> > greatest good and maximal progress that a very few people
> > starve to death each winter through having alienated absolutely
> > everyone who would help them, and a few people freeze to death
> > every winter (because we don't have universal 1984 type
> > surveillance, and so none of their neighbors even knows,
> > assuming they'd help some real nuisance guy or gal).
>
>What you just wrote is disgusting.

I rather thought that's what BillK and I were saying, Fred--that the 
opinion is disgusting yet one can find it enunciated by some 
libertarians, even here. ("Even" here? You know, I've rarely seen it 
spelled out so brutally anywhere else.)

Damien Broderick