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>>TANSTAAFL on the one hand - but where do you draw the line on self inflicted health care cost: should the costs of
>>obesity
>>smoking
>>heroin addiction
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>>shouldered by all to the same extent ?
>Thomas,
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>you couldn't draw a line on addictions.
>A good part of addiction is in ones genes. So how to discriminate from those with Trisomie 21?
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>What about children?. Those are self inflicted and create costs to? (This one isn't that far)
>Means bad combination of parents self infliction? One can inherit deafness, for example?
>Do you think a person that was exposed to a unhealthy environment and died several 10 years later on it is self inflicted because he had the choice to be unemployed?
>"The Sixty"??
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>I reject the whole discussion. Last time it was state of the art we end up killing the "unworthy live".
>(Being on the edge of Godwin's Law: This means in no way I think you implied this.)
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You made me look up Godwin's Law. I had not heard that one before. There is some truth to it, isn't there?