re: #153 Lazarus

Government doesn’t exist to protect our lives from everything that threatens it, it exist to protect our rights.

Other people have commented that volcano monitoring doesn’t belong in a stimulus / bailout bill. I’m sympathetic to that. I’ve not downdinged those posts; some of them I’ve even dinged up.

I downdinged Lazarus’s posts here because they assert that a government shouldn’t intervene if a freakin’ VOLCANO is at risk of erupting. There’s libertarianism, and then there’s gross irresponsibility. People who believe that are effectively playing Bioshock in real life.