In response to this idiotic Facebook status meme making the rounds: “[user name] No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day,” I set my own Facebook status, per Anthony Gregory’s suggestion to:
Stephan Kinsella thinks no one should die being bombed, shot or tortured by the U.S. government. The same institution that has murdered and imprisoned millions of innocents and loots trillions on behalf of Wall Street will never have the best interests of the weakest people in mind. More government control over medicine will only empower the imperialists in DC. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.
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Hounding you, I offer my more on-point counterpoint:
No one should die. Period. That being an impossible standard, my next statement of normative prohibition is: NO ONE SHOULD BE COERCED INTO SUBSERVIENCE TO THE CORPORATIST STATE, forced to choose one method of payment for medical services, forced to use his or her ready money, savings, insurance, or charitable donations only as specified by a bureaucratic regime put in place for any reason, including the “charitable.”
Good response but there’s no such thing as a “meme”.
Can we assume that you won’t sue for copyright infringement if we Cut/Paste your creative status message?