yeah, I hate it when ppl save others that don't want to be saved. For example, if you're trying to kill yourself and you find yourself instead in a hospital with permanent brain damage, wouldn't you rather be dead?

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ltweintz
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That's actually my point.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Unabageler
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It's not heartless, it's letting people take responsibility for their own actions.

 

I agree with Luke .. Let the idiots kill themselves.

That guy will probably get out the hospital (does he even have insurance to pay for his limbs to get re-attached ??), and die in a drug OD or something. Then the taxpayers end up with his hospital bill (or the members of the HMO's the hospital uses).

Should they have let him bleed to death at his house after cutting off his own hand, penis, and scrotum?!? Hell yes!

 

Maybe insurance reforms would help fix all this?

:wonders if we, the corner, can come up with a plan to save the world:

oink.

 

I was going to take umbrage at Luke's prior statements, but then I realized I was in the Corner.

Oink, oink

 

Sorry if I offended Martin....it's just one of those things that really drives me nuts.

 

I'll start this with an oink oink

The problem, and Josh caught part of it with his insurance comment, is that one person's actions (and I'm referring to helmet/seatbelt laws, etc.) affect all of us.

You all know I used to work for a motorcycle manufacturer. As an engineer, I've had to testify in court that a person's stupidity killed them, and that the damage is consistent with crashing into a concrete barrier at speeds in excess of 100 mph. That case costs you, me, and everyone who wants to buy a bike. The other, and less recognized problem, is that actions like that also influence the public's perception. Bikes (or Honda S2000s) are unsafe because they (insert ill behaviour here), when we, as rational Cornerville residents, know that it's the operator, not the machine.

Believe me, if I could cull the eejits from the gene pool, I'd love to. But at what cost to me?

Sorry, minor rant. Now back to and

 

OIC.....we just need to find a way to get rid of the stupid but not-so-stupid people too. That way the only people left would be the ones who understand it's the operator not the machine. Same goes for guns IMO.

oink-oink

 

Same here. When I don't have to pay to keep some hog-riding, no-helmet-wearing, drunk-and-stoned eejit on life support through taxes and insurance, and we can tell his family, "Hey, sorry 'bout your loss, don't come looking in my pockets" we'll all have a better world. Guns included But still, we need more (oyo) and