It's happening again. Progressives always reach a place to where they want to kill people.

Now anyone can understand how a nation as civilized as Germany so rapidly adopted fascism. It's also not that great a leap to follow these same threads to learn where the Nazis learned eugenics, by their own admission, from the sterilization programs employed by the State of Indiana, among others, from American Progressives.

This is not to say they learned their whole program from Americans.

After all, it is we who adopted the Prussian grade school model. You must add to this toxic brew the failed individual seeking escape from the awesome responsibilities that accompany being born with the Knowledge of Good and Evil, our family curse.

Just such a mass movement, offering precisely this same illusion of an escape from freedom, emerged in the Nazis.

In the words of Captain Kirk, "they had to be destroyed at a terrible cost."

And today that same ideology has emerged yet again, to meet the same historic need. Islam.

Interesting Post.

“That is a matter for me and my private insurance company.”

Informative to the extent that your apparent plans do not require the rest of us to finance them.

“You, and the government, can take a hike. This doesn’t concern you.”

1. Your response implies you don’t think your posts should be questioned or that you should be asked to expand on or clarify anything in them. You’re not that special.

2. Whether or not it concerns me is still an open question to which you don’t get to give the final answer.

“Why do you feel you get to have a say in the final disposition of my life?”

I didn’t write that I “get to have a say.”

I wrote that “Whether or not it concerns me is still an open question...”. It might concern me or it might not.

It might concern me and my neighbors if the facility in which you are to be stored till you can be cured is proposed to be built in our community and we don’t want it there for some reason.

It might concern me if I was a stockholder or employee in the private insurance company you wrote of.

It might concern me for other reasons.

Or it might not concern me at all.

Like I wrote, it’s still an open question. I have insufficient information to know if it concerns me or not.

“Awfully presumptive of you to say the least.”

Was it not presumptive of you to write “This doesn’t concern you”? How do you know that? You wrote that it was “a matter for me and my private insurance company”, but do you know for a fact that what you two do will not affect anyone else, anywhere, ever?

And you don’t have to answer those questions, I’m really not that interested.

The financial/economic aspects of “keeping you alive as long as possible, no matter how incapacitated, in the hopes that some day they may find a way to fix you” are more interesting.

As one example, what if they find a way to fix you, but it’s cheaper to maintain you in the incapacitated state than to fix you? What are the decision criteria? What if there are a hundred like you, and they fix you all regardless of the expense and then can’t afford to keep me and those like me alive as long as it would have been possible if they didn’t fix all of you? Would that concern me?

In conclusion: Good night.

How do you know that?

Because it's my life. Not yours. cogito ergo sum.

Look, if you want to make money off my insurance premiums, fine. Invest in the company, or don't. Your decision to do so has a little to do with me as my decision does for you.

It's called the free market and it provides certain services to those willing and able to pay. As a free market, you can either roll the dice and participate, or you can go play elsewhere.

As for "fixing me", that would be stipulated in the original contract would it not? Again, no need for you and government to step in here as I can negotiate that with my insurance company myself through my lawyer.

I'm assuming you have even more red herrings and tangential arguments to make...

My original point stands, the government should have no role in these decisions. Period.

As for "fixing me", that would be stipulated in the original contract would it not?

That may have been something that would have come up in discussion if your original response to me had been in good faith.

I'm assuming you have even more red herrings and tangential arguments to make...

I'm confident the judgement of posterity and lurkers will deem I wasn't the one who drove the discussion off track.

You haven't turned out to be worthwhile, so I'm done. Take your last shot. Try the point about the government again. That should be safe for you since I didn't dispute it.

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