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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
I say, more power to the deputy. Figueroa allows someone in her house to do drugs, she's complicit. I bet she's no choir girl herself. This dovetails with a program I watched on the NatGeo channel, where a meth cook burned himself over 90% of his body. So, natuarally, he's in a hospital where over a million dollars has been spent to keep him alive and skin graft him back to normal. These damn freaks trash their lives then run calling for help from the police and hospital. Too bad, let them deal with it on their own.
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I think you turn two different things into one there. Let's keep them separate. A cop called to help in a situation the caller describes as involving a crazy guy and that an ambulance is needed shouzld approach the situation cautiously and in a state of alarm and ready for defense anyway. Not only procedures, but instinct should tell him that. I refuse the case that deputy makes, therefore.
The costs to the public when expected to care for people ruining their lives by themselves, that is a very different issue. And I share your attitude. People may be free to act silly or self-damaging, and I am against over-regulating everybody's life just to rule out the many eventualities of possible accidents and crazy decisions made by some. But I insist on people having to accept more self-responsibility, and less "solidarity" by the community. I refuse to be solidaric with the stupid, the idiots, the irresponsible and the selfish. With those others who by fate's strike get into trouble without it being their fault I may claim the freedom to voluntarily declare my solidarity and help them - but I refuse that to be a legal or moral obligation.