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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts
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To: ajtj99 who wrote (94883)9/11/2025 1:42:14 PM
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There are two issues here:

First there is the issue of individual rights. In general, I strongly lean libertarian and believe that everyone has the right to make their own mistakes and I don't believe that people should be protected from the consequences of their actions. Rights and responsibilities go hand-in-hand; you can't have one without the other.

The second issue is a matter of cost-benefit evaluation. I always temper my libertarian views with pragmatism and acknowledge that no right is absolute. As a benefit of living in the society, we have to contend with giving up some of our rights.

An intelligent debate would be about how we draw the line. In your specific example, there is no reason why a law cannot be passed that the driver or his estate is not responsible for footing the EMT costs. One could also argue that the cost of EMT is part of the cost of sharing the road and could be charged back via fuel taxes or similar methods.

Ultimately, the right answer is whatever the society on the whole decides. But that decision has to be made within the right framework of cost-benefits and role-responsibility with consideration to alternative implementations. Where I've seen governance fail (and not just in civic but also in enterprises), has been usually been due to imbalances between roles and responsibilities rather than whether or not any single policy was wrong.
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