[ExI] toxins - was the truth about neonicotinoids

[Giulio Prisco]

Well said Dan.

But even in a context where everyone pays for everyone, the argument
remains dangerous.

Every lifestyle has potentially dangerous elements and can become a
health risk when taken to extreme. So everyone could start refusing to
pay for those whose lifestyle he disapproves.

Example. I am a smoker. Say you like mountain climbing, which could
lead to accidents and the need for costly therapies. As things are
now, I have no problem to pay for your mountain climbing risk, because
I know you are paying for my smoking risk. But if you refuse to pay,
then I refuse to pay...

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 3:56 AM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 10:39 AM Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Be very careful with this argument. It could be used to criminalize
>
> all sorts of lifestyles that could conceivably damage health,
>
> including action sports and sexual promiscuity. Better live-and
>
> -let-live if you ask me. I leave you in peace and you leave me in peace.
>
>
> Yes, the knee-jerk libertarian response to this should always be the people
> shouldn't be forced to pay for other people's life choices in the first
> place -- and not to curtail life choices. Again, that approach -- arguing we
> pay for people's healthcare so we should then dictate their life choices --
> is not libertarian. It's authoritarian.
>
> By the way, Adolf Hitler was very much against smokers, drinkers
>
> and fat people.
>
>
> I don't want to stoop to using an argumentum ad hitlerum, but I recall
> flipping through a book on the Nazi war on cancer around 02000. I've never
> bought a copy of it, but see:
>
> http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6573.html
>
> If you don't want to read the book, see this more recent article in _The
> Atlantic_:
>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/the-nazis-forgotten-anti-smoking-campaign/373766/
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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>
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