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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (3735)	10/22/2019 4:45:10 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13801

I'll be the last man against the democratic nation-state. I am no TJ. It is an offense to use MQ line of argumentation to pinpoint someone to a certain geography. He only does that because his arguments are weak. I most probably know more about the US society and the US nation state than many Americans do. Democracy is a government with three independent powers. How can you make the connection to my argumentation that the insurance companies are in the business of playing with our brains? Fantasy is THE selling point par excellence, else we wouldn't have marketing. Insurance companies are in the business of playing with our brains because risk is a thing that seldom happens. If you have a real risk, insurance company does not sell you a policy. To be able to buy auto insurance I have to prove that I was insured before. If an insurer had a problem with me, the next would have too. I don't pay life nor health insurance and am my own insurance company. If any member of the family gets sick and go to the doctor and pay a bill like when I buy groceries. A shopping mall, a refinery, an airline are a different stories. Government regulate them. Certain businesses have terms and conditions that require insurance as a pre-condition. Promising security and safety are the best selling tools. Never seek security in a unsafe world. One need to tell females that as they have a preference to seek security.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (3735)	10/22/2019 5:05:04 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13801

You know I worked for the over regulated Germany's company Siemens AG. Once a colleague took three of us to a weekend in Klagenfurt, Austria, in the border of what was about to become Slovenia. (they were still fighting there) He was driving his brother's old SAAB and he had a tire puncture. Friday early evening during Summer we didn't mind having beers while he dealt with the problem at the gas station. The tire was too screwed up to repair and he needed a new one. (His brother used the old Saab only for Klagenfurt and vicinity, probably he wasn't that careful with his car) He told that he had to buy 4 tires. The rules were that if he had, say, all Pirelli tires, and the dealer at the gas station did not have Pirelli tires for that vehicle, he could not buy a Michelin or a Goodyear of the same specifications of the 3 old tires. He had to buy all 4 new tires. For me that was too much. I always buy tires myself. And there is nothing more important for me in a car than tires first, break system second. I know that the brakes are much more reliable in a vehicle than the tires I threw replaced iron rims (before alloy wheels became popular) as soon as soon as it visually showed too many counterbalancing and I used to drive in bad roads. I am more safe having a safety mindset than buying insurance or using personal protective equipment. It is the safety mindset that avoids accidents and deaths.