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In reply to the discussion: Destroying the Right to Be Left Alone [View all]Pholus
(4,062 posts)But that one situation doesn't make your broader case.
You are not seeing the obvious similarities in your dismissal. Emotionally, you understand that being "leadfooted and texting" causes loss through poor choices on the part of others. But despite your dismissal anti-choicers see the same thing, just about a different situation. You just don't value the same particular outcome they do.
That's why those laws had better be about cold-hard-numbers instead of emotions. On that account, texting laws make sense, and anti-abortion does not.
But one parting thought: if your "selfish shit" were to get cancer the year after a bike helmet saved their life in an accident, would you call them "selfish" when they sucked up several million dollars in therapy? Would you examine their life with a fine toothed comb to find some "individualistic" behavior that rationalizes why they had it coming and they cost the rest of us? I would hope not but there are certainly plenty of disgusting people who seem to get their jollies from that.