02-29-2020, 05:47 PM
Nice Rant.
It is all over the place. I will chase down one angle that interests me.
Insurance companies are behind a lot of it. A lot of vices and criminal behavior are checked by law. For example, if you smoke or speed you put your own life and others at risk, causing health care and insurance rates to climb, not to mention killing people. But the insurance companies have the direct financial motive and money to go to law makers and cut premiums while increasing profits by banning antisocial behavior. A lot of the laws you mention forbid vices which can effect other people for ill.
Why is it that vices kill people? Why is it that your vices should effect me in real life and my premiums financially? And should we be in the business of encouraging vices or criminal activity?
You would have to go through it law by law to see how it makes sense. I assume you are a vice filled criminal for it to bother you. Maybe in the wide open spaces of the middle of the country your vices and criminal activity effect your neighbors less. Maybe they too are more into vice and criminal activity.
However, population dense areas have seem enough of vice and crime. It isn’t insanity. It is often an honest attempt to solve a real problem. Just because you have not encountered the problem does not make it insane. It just makes you naive.
It is all over the place. I will chase down one angle that interests me.
Insurance companies are behind a lot of it. A lot of vices and criminal behavior are checked by law. For example, if you smoke or speed you put your own life and others at risk, causing health care and insurance rates to climb, not to mention killing people. But the insurance companies have the direct financial motive and money to go to law makers and cut premiums while increasing profits by banning antisocial behavior. A lot of the laws you mention forbid vices which can effect other people for ill.
Why is it that vices kill people? Why is it that your vices should effect me in real life and my premiums financially? And should we be in the business of encouraging vices or criminal activity?
You would have to go through it law by law to see how it makes sense. I assume you are a vice filled criminal for it to bother you. Maybe in the wide open spaces of the middle of the country your vices and criminal activity effect your neighbors less. Maybe they too are more into vice and criminal activity.
However, population dense areas have seem enough of vice and crime. It isn’t insanity. It is often an honest attempt to solve a real problem. Just because you have not encountered the problem does not make it insane. It just makes you naive.
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