Comment by refurb
1 day ago
Even the Soviets had a label for people who are a drain on society. You can’t run a country pretending everyone makes good choices.
1 day ago
Even the Soviets had a label for people who are a drain on society. You can’t run a country pretending everyone makes good choices.
And yet, somehow, not every country that has offered free ambulance rides has fallen into financial ruin.
Strawman. Ask any ER about “frequent flyers” who use ambulances as taxis
It's not a strawman. Ruining entire countries is literally what the parent comment said would happen if we do something as outrageous as making ambulances free.
> But those same people, through one false rationalization or another, are more than happy to ruin the entire country.
You may not have agued it yourself but your two sentence comment is rather lacking in alternate arguments, so I can only interpret you as supporting said parent comment and now engaging in a motte-and-bailey now that you realise you don't actually like what they said.
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