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To: KrisKrinkle
Why do you feel you get to have a say in the final disposition of my life?

Awfully presumptive of you to say the least.

25 posted on 02/01/2012 9:54:37 PM PST by Dead Corpse (Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
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To: Dead Corpse

“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.


26 posted on 02/01/2012 11:15:18 PM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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