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Originally posted by whodey
Affluenza
To borrow a phrase from Fiddler on the Roof:

May God smite me with all his might!

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People should read The Rich get Richer and the Poor Get Prison. For those too cheap or lazy to do so, chapter summaries are here: http://paulsjusticepage.com/RichGetRicher/summary1.htm


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Health care is neither a right nor is it required.

Eat the right foods and exercise and chances are you won't need much in the way of medicine.

The court system is part of the government and as such is supposed to treat everyone equally.

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Originally posted by Eladar
Health care is neither a right nor is it required.

Eat the right foods and exercise and chances are you won't need much in the way of medicine.

The court system is part of the government and as such is supposed to treat everyone equally.
Just don't ever be the victim of a crime or have any conflicts with anyone and you won't need much legal protection.


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That society isn't the US.

I'd prefer to keep it that way. I don't like the idea of the government elite telling me what is good health care and what is bad health care. I don't like the idea of the government telling me what I need to be funding. I prefer freedom.

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Originally posted by whodey
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/12/affluenza-dwi-dui-texas/3999487/

To make a long story short, a 16 year old boy get smashed and goes for a ride and hits a car killing 4 and paralyzing one person. His parents are loaded, and then hire a psychologist to claim that the boy suffers from "afluenza", the disease of having rich parents who pa ...[text shortened]... lars for the boy to seek rehab in a plush environment for 10 days.

There, justice served. 😵
That's ridiculous. If you can't drive safely, you're a moron and shouldn't be driving, and whether you were spoilt by your parents has very little to do with it. I assume by "smashed" you mean drunk, which should be (and often is, especially if injuries were caused) a felony.

Oh, here we are. I found this:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/12/
ethan_couch_affluenza_defense_critique_of_the_psychology_of_no_consequences.html