>Or that person is the next Charles Manson?
Which raises an excellent point : perhaps in our New America where there is a pro-active role for Government and for our Betters to help up make decisions about our lives there will finally be some attention paid to mandating Kevlar body-armor for everyone to so we don't have more victims of government neglect when death-cults attack with knives. If Sharon Tate had been wearing the Kevlar maternity line ... well, Roman Polansky might still be with us.
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>>Depends. We can go a long way with that kind of "what if" scenario. Here's one: What if that one life we saved will save 1 000 000 lifes because that person will find a cure for some cancer? Or that person is the next Einstein?
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>>I think we should get back to the question of the helmet.
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>>>Realistically - life has price and most healthcare organizations have worked out what it is. Would you spend $1 million to save 1 life if that same $1 million could save 1000 others?
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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