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Why not? If the elderly had taken better care of themselves when they were younger, they wouldn't need health care.
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Get real.
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That's your argument- people's health problems are their own faults. Explain to me, since you're clearly a medical expert, what my mom, who died at 35 from breast cancer, did to give it to herself. Because I'm sure the medical community would love to know.
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Sometimes it's not their fault, but it's also not mine or anyone else's fault, sans maybe you're maternal grandmother's family genes for your mom's (sorry) breast cancer.
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I've got news for you; people smoke and never suffer health problems, people never smoke and die of lung cancer.
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I encourage you to lookup smoking and its relationship to lung cancer.
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My maternal grandparents were both thin their whole lives and they both still ended up with Type 2 diabetes.
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Again family history may be to blame but certainly young healthy individuals were/are not.
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This guy was an idiot for smoking, but he was a bigger idiot for flouting the law and not buying health insurance when it was made possible for someone like him, with a preexisting condition, to do so.
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I still maintain he was a bigger idiot for smoking and currently is a complete douche bag, moron to continue smoking while "crying woe is me."
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"Being a progressive and a liberal means having compassion for others, even those who make stupid ****ing mistakes. Although I think the guy is 100% wrong, I don’t think he should go blind because he’s a moron. If you do, you need to seriously go and reevaluate your moral system."
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I don't think he should go blind because he's a moron and am sorry for his situation. However being a reality based, fiscal conservative, I have a clear conscience that I bear no responsibility for his situation.
Contrary to what you wrote, being a progressive and liberal means living in a world of feelings rather than facts, holding no one responsible for themselves, and blaming anyone not progressive and liberal for all of life's problems.
A perfect example was when Obama blamed global warming for triggering his daughter's asthma attack rather than considering it might have been his 2nd hand cigarette smoke he was exposing her to. Or blaming LA pollution for not being able to go out for a run instead of sitting inside and smoking pot.
