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Agreed. I think motorcycle riders should not be required to wear  
helmets. But considering they might squash their brains, shall we just  
let them die unassisted or might we consider requiring that they have  
adequate insurance to pay for patching them up and then the  
maintenance of their vegetative state? More complicated, how shall we  
deal with the needs of their children thus deprived of a wage-earning  
father or mother?

Yes, motorcycling is an assumed risk.  I know you mean that as an extreme 
example to walk away and let them die, but short of that, it's the cyclist's 
dodge.  As far as their families go, let me compare that to the bad choice of 
selling drugs or embezzeling , should we refrain from sending the culprit to 
prison because it would deprive the child of a parent?  

> 
> Great. How shall we compensate those who lead healthful lifestyles  
> rather than penalizing them to pay for the medical problems of those  
> who eat cheeseburgers four times a day?

Overweight people can be charges 'slightly' higher rates for medical 
insurance (as can smokers, skydivers, those with high blood pressure, etc) 
but it is 
not in proportion to their increased risk for medical expenses.  If all 
government guild laws were withdrawn from the medical industy, a very healthy 
person 
or just a person who has made wise decisions all their life could pay for 
medical services easily.

> 
> >As the government does for certain very large businesses.

It does indeed.  No good, says I, has come of it.


> 
> >How shall we amend that?
> 

As a society?  Stop looking on people who make idiot decisons in their lives 
as the honorably disadvantaged as if it were a badge of honor.    </HTML>