Copypasta'd from the SomethingAwful.com forums
Even if every single economic consideration didn't make UHC a better choice (they do), simple cost wouldn't make UHC a worse option. Any society that doesn't value the life and welfare of it's citizens above the ability of the well off to glut themselves on endless quantities of consumer goods is sick and diseased itself.
If you are against healthcare for everyone, the poor and needy included, you have lost touch with your common humanity. You are an aberration, you have set yourself apart as being outside society and the human community, but still demand a say in how it is run, so as it to enrich yourself at the expense of the suffering of others. You speak of productivity and point to the numbers in your bank account as validation of your worth as a human. You make the rich richer and laud yourself for your contribution to the great society of wealth. You are able to dehumanize others, turning them into abstract concepts beneath your concern by labeling them as lazy, useless, or otherwise unworthy of notice because they don't assist you to enrich yourselves and their existence helps invalidate the house-of-cards framework of justifications you've built up to allow your human conscience to excuse this atrocity. To accept that these are real people, with real lives, hopes, dreams, families and friends - to accept that whatever their circumstances, their situation may not be entirely their own fault - to accept the corollary of this, that your station in life is not the sole result of of your efforts - to accept that even if the destitute underclasses are there by their own doing, they are still human beings entitled to respect and dignity regardless - to do any of this would mean that the entire system of sink or swim free enterprise is flawed, and your own successes therefore not the pure well deserved reward for a life lived superior to others. So you will instead invent reasons and excuses to divest yourself of your humanity and your connection to others, quietly waiting for the day when you die, clutching your treasures to your chest as you are lowered into the dark earth. Forever removed from the human race you have scorned, a bodiless whisper as you slip into the void "yes... I kept it. I kept it all. Fuck you.. I've got mine.. forever"
Die swiftly. You are an outsider to the community of humanity, and the world will be enriched by your passing.
If you are against healthcare for everyone, the poor and needy included, you have lost touch with your common humanity. You are an aberration, you have set yourself apart as being outside society and the human community, but still demand a say in how it is run, so as it to enrich yourself at the expense of the suffering of others. You speak of productivity and point to the numbers in your bank account as validation of your worth as a human. You make the rich richer and laud yourself for your contribution to the great society of wealth. You are able to dehumanize others, turning them into abstract concepts beneath your concern by labeling them as lazy, useless, or otherwise unworthy of notice because they don't assist you to enrich yourselves and their existence helps invalidate the house-of-cards framework of justifications you've built up to allow your human conscience to excuse this atrocity. To accept that these are real people, with real lives, hopes, dreams, families and friends - to accept that whatever their circumstances, their situation may not be entirely their own fault - to accept the corollary of this, that your station in life is not the sole result of of your efforts - to accept that even if the destitute underclasses are there by their own doing, they are still human beings entitled to respect and dignity regardless - to do any of this would mean that the entire system of sink or swim free enterprise is flawed, and your own successes therefore not the pure well deserved reward for a life lived superior to others. So you will instead invent reasons and excuses to divest yourself of your humanity and your connection to others, quietly waiting for the day when you die, clutching your treasures to your chest as you are lowered into the dark earth. Forever removed from the human race you have scorned, a bodiless whisper as you slip into the void "yes... I kept it. I kept it all. Fuck you.. I've got mine.. forever"
Die swiftly. You are an outsider to the community of humanity, and the world will be enriched by your passing.
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