DaleC
Contributor
No, I am not talking about Jarrod Jablonski. GUE works hard to mitigate known risks and to provide for unknown risks.
Yes, some "record setting" is different than others. The book "On the Origin of Species" goes into this in more detail.
No, I don't mind paying into an insurance plan which spreads risk and cost over a large number of reasonably responsible people. I DO mind being forced to pay much higher health premiums to cover the unneccessary costs of willfully irresponsible people.
No, I don't think my payments will pay for the cost of my care if I get a very expensive disease. It's a big problem in the US.
No, I am not doing "everything possible" but I am doing most things (Don't smoke, eat healthy, drink little, exercise) and should do more (lose weight, eat less meat/salt/fat).
I agree with most of your second paragraph, especially if you are referring to government leaders and Wall Street bankers.
Hypocrisy is so tedious. Hopefully you will not succumb to a disease or injury of your own making and hopefully your care team will not assume you can't hear and hopefully they will not talk amongst themselves about what a burden you are to the tax system (and complain about the stench of your bowel movements).
I may engage in the occasional risk taking activity but I generally try to temper my thinking with the humility of knowing I am, in reality, a wonderfully flawed machine. I dream, I try to manifest some of those dreams into reality and I occasionally make mistakes along the way. Knowing this, I try to extend the same consideration to others.