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No, it is luck. Because deciding to cross the street 1 second before or after would have resulted in not being hit. If cancer cells didn't mutate, your child wouldn't have had cancer. If you left for work two minutes later, you wouldn't have been hit by that tractor trailer.
Luck.
Not statistics. Not bad decision making. Have some of become so enamored with humanity that we believe we are untouchable and in full control of life and her whims?
No we are not in full control. Things happen, its how people react to things that happen.
No we are not in full control. Things happen, its how people react to things that happen.
Things happen and because of those things people can end up in poverty. I have a friend whose very young daughter died of cancer. Before her death, her parents sold their home, liquidated everything to fund her treatment because insurance would no longer foot the bill. My friend lost her job because of all the time she had to miss taking her daughter to treatments and spending literally months in hospitals far from home.
This is but one example of how the best laid plans can go awry.
You can't tell the difference between being a drug dealer and getting hurt at work? Or getting diagnosed with a deadly disease?
Surely. Someone hurt at work is entitled to something called Workman's Comp, something a drug dealer would know nothing about.
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Originally Posted by Magritte25
I live in this world very fully sir. So fully that I spend my time helping those who have been struck by the very things I'm talking talk. So fully that I understand that no matter how well one plans their life, things happen outside of your control.
Most sane people buy insurance, that's how you deal with things outside your control. Those who prefer do buy conveniences instead of protection, well, they can live with their choices.
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I suggest you spend a little time in your community, with those people you so clearly disdain and learn. Then come back here and tell me and everyone else how life is so controllable by our measly hands.
You preach like a city rat. Now listen to a country mouse. I live in a remote island community on a peninsula of the Isle of Skye that lives responsibly and well within their means, and have done for nearly two decades. And I know *everyone* within a 20 mile radius of my property. We don't live luxuriously, but we manage because we all know who's reliable and who isn't. The folks that help others get the same in return. The ones who choose to take smack and hang out in the pubs, well, they're at the mercy of the state that you admire. Best of luck to them.
Surely. Someone hurt at work is entitled to something called Workman's Comp, something a drug dealer would know nothing about.
And when workman's comp runs out? Or is unfairly denied?
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Most sane people buy insurance, that's how you deal with things outside your control. Those who prefer do buy conveniences instead of protection, well, they can live with their choices.
You do realize that insurance companies have caps on what they will pay for treatments, surgeries, etc, right?
My answer is healthcare and education reforms. I think we need more doctors, especially specialists. I think we need to do away with huge payouts in medical malpractice suits.
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