I liken this to seat belts. I was so opposed to seat belts that I actually removed them from cars until they were required to be worn.
I didn’t wear them until I was nearly rolled over by a semi on an Interstate. The older state trooper asked me if I was wearing a belt (again, not required at the time). He told me that most of the time vehicles rolled over in that type of an accident, and that he had never pulled a living person from one.
So, then I started wearing them.
There is a personal freedom issue here, but there is also a societal cost issue. I don’t want to pay for anyone’s “freedom” to get a quarter of a million dollars of reconstructive surgery, or lifetime disability care. You may say “my insurance pays for that”, but it really doesn’t.
Those hiding behind "my insurance pays for that" are collectivists. Every damned one of them will be stealing money from the pockets of others, driving up costs and pushing some responsible persons out of coverage affordability for basic necessities.
That's one thing to admire about Limbaugh. He's self-insured. Rehab, drug-caused deafness, obesity-related illness? No problem. He pays out of pocket. No hypocrisy there just real freedom and personable responsibility for his decisions.
Imagine if we lived in a world where everyone could attain that level of independence.
Nothing worse than a reformed drunk.
It’s funny that a personal incident turned you into a crusader against everyone else’s freedom.
By the way this isone of the most frequently posted articles ever on FR. It has been posted most every day since it happened, a week ago.