The family should have paid the consequences of not paying the $75, absolutely. How about a penalty of another bill, with a kicker? Whatever happens as ‘punishment’ it does not matter.

Once the firefighters showed up they should have put out the fire. This is just insane. This is fundamentalist paleoconservative dogma, not practical conservatism.

The ‘Christian thing’ to do would have been to put out the damn fire.