Let's suppose, for the sake of this argument, that you don't quite die as the result of your injuries but are rendered incapacitated to the extent that you can no longer care for yourself. Who else, besides the "Government," is going to look after you and provide your care? These days we don't often drag the unfit out back and just leave 'em there to fend for themselves... I suppose that the rules/regs that we are talking about here could be seen as being place so that the government/society/greater-good doesn't have to bear the consequences of the one individual's mistake. --allan *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Sep 07 2000 - 13:44:51 PDT
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