MissC
31-05-2014, 09:06 PM
Oh... kay...
Will someone explain to me, then, why self-harm and suicide need to be taxpayer funded? Why is someone else's self-harm my financial responsibility?
Do any of you actually have to write your own check to the IRS quarterly? Do you feel the squeeze of all the things shit-for-brains politicians think we need to pay for already?
Medicare already does not cover many things that could save the lives of people who do NOT hurt or kill themselves. People who love life and want to live are being denied care -- shouldn't they have first priority? Heck, we've got a recent scandal about that -- granted, it's VA and not Medicare, but it's the same federal gummint.
Why the fuck should we try to save people who don't WANT to live? (That could be a jumping-off point for a discussion on physician-assisted suicide aka euthanasia, but not today...)
That's not even counting the fact that the TS suicide rate does NOT go down, post-op. That's not a very good success rate, is it? Why fund something with a zero percent success rate at what it is you're trying to prevent?
I realize that sounds callous to people who think only with their bleeding hearts, but I am coming from a place where I have lost co-workers and friends and relatives to suicide. Reasons varied from divorce and holiday blues, to a cheating girlfriend, to dying anyway of cancer. (That last one was a cousin... docs wouldn't give her enough morphine to gently slip away, so her final act was jumping off a high-rise. Gross.)
How could government have prevented my close high school friend's suicide when he learned the truth about his girlfriend? Forced her to apologize and give him a blowjob? Pay for a sympathetic call girl? Where do we draw a line, people?
Does anyone actually stop to think about what they think? Ask yourself at times the question, "This thing I believe -- is it supported by facts? Does it make sense? Is it logical? Can I prove it?"
I am willing to listen, and to change my mind... IF anyone can present a logical case. But I suspect all I'm going to hear is some whining about the "tone" of the thread, which is code for "I don't have a response to that."
This post was last modified: 31-05-2014, 09:14 PM by MissC.