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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
This is a valid response, but I don't really agree with it.
Do you look at someone who weighs 500 pounds and rides on a little golf cart and say "there but for the grace of God..."? I don't. I also don't look at that person and think, "Well, thru Medicare I'm paying for his golf cart, because he's too fat to walk. But it's about the same as if he got hit by a car walking across the street."
You already live in a society that does otherwise -- it's how many of our prisons are filled. Also the basis of most tort law.
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I do have to confess, I frequently see these people on their Jazzy Scooters, or whatever, more often than not blocking the aisle in the grocery store or on the bus, and I think to myself, that is just wrong. But even if I take Paul Prudhomme's little cart away, I'm still going to feel like he needs to have someone deliver sensible meals to his house and roll him over twice a day so he doesn't get couch-sores.
