A cost analysis of Vista content protection (just a bit off topic) [LWN.net]

A cost analysis of Vista content protection (just a bit off topic)

Posted Dec 25, 2006 10:03 UTC (Mon) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
In reply to: A cost analysis of Vista content protection (just a bit off topic) by drag
Parent article: A cost analysis of Vista content protection

>> ""If you choose to knowingly kill yourself - fine with me, but I want
>> you off any health insurance reimbursement system. Eat all the trans
>> fats and consume all the addictive drugs you please - try tobacco. But
>> don't cry later.""

> Fuck that. This sort of thing REALY pisses me off. I WORK for a living.
> I make a valueable contribution to sociaty and I get compinsated. I use
> the money I earn to buy health insurance.

I think the question here is (and I would like that you respond it with a
sound argument if you have one): I too work for a living, etc etc. WHY
should my health insurance cost the same as yours, if I do everything to
prevent health problems (including seriously limiting my intake of drugs,
amongst them white sugar, trans fat, alcohol and tobacco) and you don't???
You should be carrying the burden of your own style of living, not me.

> I am a grown person, work for a living, and it's not anybody else's
> business. It's NOT ANY OF YOUR BUSINESS.

The problem is: it IS my business if you are spending MY money on your
self-inflicted health problems.

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A cost analysis of Vista content protection (just a bit off topic)

Posted Dec 25, 2006 14:03 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

There is absolutely no reason why your insurance should be the same as mine.

Why do you think it is? I realy realy doubt you pay the same as I do.

Go and find some insurance place that does physicals if you don't want to share your cost with unhealthy people.

""The problem is: it IS my business if you are spending MY money on your
self-inflicted health problems.""

It isn't your money.

A cost analysis of Vista content protection (just a bit off topic)

Posted Dec 26, 2006 13:02 UTC (Tue) by irios (guest, #19838) [Link]

I want your genome scanned for genetic imperfections which might cost other innocents a lot of money later.

Your attitude is so selfish, self-righteous, self-indulging, self-serving, and myopic that you deserve no answers at all. And all because one day you read an article about fat, and now you feel enlightened, and entitled to impose your supposedly informed opinions on others.

That attitude is why you have to pay an arm and a leg for a shitty health insurance, or else you may die sitting at the door of a hospital for all they care, while everybody in my much poorer country is protected by universal health coverage.