\u2026in three sentences:<\/p>\n
\nIf you get lung cancer from smoking then you shouldn\u2019t get treatment. It says right on the box may cause cancer.Let mother nature takes its course for the next 20 years and see where we are after that.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nI\u2019ll explain to my Mom that if she be like to die she had better do it and decrease the surplus population because some Real Catholic[TM] thinks that the sick should simply be subjected to \u201cMother Nature taking its course.\u201d\u00a0 Hell\u2019s bells.\u00a0 Why do we even *have* hospitals? If the sick and injured are dumb enough to have accidents or expose themselves to illness or not pursue flawless lives of diet and exercise, we should just let them die\u2013as Jesus said to do.<\/div>\n\n\u201cMan,\u201d said the Ghost, \u201cif man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man\u2019s child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nWhat\u2019s fascinating to me is that\u00a0chemically pure\u00a0libertarian\u2019s rugged individualism (this was, weirdly, spoken in the middle of a diatribe about the absolute primacy of the second amendment) drives him to enthusiasm for exactly the same thinking that motivates every lefty euthanasia and death panel enthusiast<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd so, strangely\u2013or perhaps not so strangely\u2013the party that pretends to be prolife cheers\u2013cheers!\u2013at the idea of letting the uninsured die in just the same way that Paul Krugman calls for death panels:<\/p>\n