<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 10:39 AM Giulio Prisco <<a href="mailto:giulio@gmail.com">giulio@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span>Be very careful with this argument. It could be used to criminalize</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>all sorts of lifestyles that could conceivably damage health,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>including action sports and sexual promiscuity. Better live-and</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>-let-live if you ask me. I leave you in peace and you leave me in peace.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>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.</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>By the way, Adolf Hitler was very much against smokers, drinkers</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and fat people.</span><br></blockquote><br><span>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:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6573.html">http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6573.html</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><span>If you don't want to read the book, see this more recent article in _The Atlantic_:</span><br><span></span><br><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/the-nazis-forgotten-anti-smoking-campaign/373766/">https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/the-nazis-forgotten-anti-smoking-campaign/373766/</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div></div></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>