re: #53 Charles

It needs to pointed out that this kind of tragic absurdity is the inevitable consequence of treating essential government services (such as firefighting) as if they were private enterprises.

When you require people to pay a subscription fee to protect their homes against fire, you’re creating a situation in which this kind of sickening outcome is unavoidable. How could the system possibly be enforced if the firefighters went ahead and extinguished fires in homes owned by people who hadn’t paid up?

This is a very bad road to travel, and it has consequences for society that go far beyond one house burning down.

Would this be kind of like the people who say that emergency rooms shouldn’t treat illegal immigrants because they haven’t paid taxes (even though many of them have)?

I thought so.

Taxes are bad. People who don’t pay them are bad. People who don’t want to pay taxes for services but then don’t pay private subscriptions are also bad. Where’s the end of bad? Only at personal responsibility, like Christ said. Because He certainly never showed responsibility for anybody but himself.