Posted on 07/04/2012 8:36:43 AM PDT by gusopol3
What if new parents were required to show proof of life insurance prior to taking their newborns home from the hospital (just like they have to have a car seat). Should parents have to show proof of “financial responsibility”?
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This gets to the heart of what our civilization is currently wrestling with -- What is the Social Contract?
For the past few centuries, there has been some level of agreement on this. Rousseau started the ball rolling, and there was a sense that individuals owed at least something to society, and that society owed something to the individual. At different times and different places, the expectations were seen in different ways.
I think that in the US and in Europe, civilization is struggling with a new conception of the Social Contract. And I think it leans very heavily toward -- individuals owe a great deal to society, and society owes next to nothing to the individual.
I think we've reached Hillaire Belloc's "Servile State".
Sounds like E.O. Wilson’s ant hill or bee hive.
Funny how different generations think about life insurance. I have $250k term on myself (single not married but have a gf) and I really don't think that is a lot in today's world. Have another $200k from work.
My grandmother has several old $5k policies and thinks that is sufficient and has told me a future wife will bump me off to get the money...and she is serious. She thinks it's wrong to have that much and thinks it's a waste of money even though my premium is less than $20 per month.
It really goes back to Genesis. Before we ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, we were better off. Now we have free will and we suffer. Many writers and philosophers have felt that rigid control and lack of free will would be a path back to paradise.
The Left doesn't necessarily come out and say it, but they want us to be an ant hill or a bee hive.
We are fighting nothing less than that battle.
I guess the removal of USSR as an object lesson and the success the Chinese have had in portraying themselves as a land of happy consumers, with a real boost from people like Thomas Friedman, has dulled the perception of many. What the heck, they have a wide segment of the population believing Cuba is a paradise.
If someone can't figure that one out, they don't deserve to be on FR. But I do appreciate the heads up. FReepRegards
And if the dims take back the House and bH0 is re-immaculated, they will probably pass such a law.
I was a stockbroker for quite a long time. We also had to be licensed insurance agents. Customers would come in and ask me to set up a life insurance policy on their new-born.
My standard response was no. You insure assets. You don’t insure liabilities.
Muslims and illegal aliens will be exempt.
She clearly has no need beyond those old "$5k" polices to cover her death and has no obligation to leave a big insurance windfall for relatives.
Since you are single and unmarried--age unknown so you might not be forgoing kids--you have no obligation to leave anything behind either.
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