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As a libertarian leftie, I actually find myself agreeing with Michael Shermer on many points here. My libertarian philosophy is that the government has NO role in creating dictates for your own safety, only in regards to the safety of others. In other words, it only has the right to interfere when your behavior put others' rights (to life, liberty, property, pursuit of happiness, and so on) in jeopardy. This applies to same-sex marriage and intimacy, contraception (which I cannot believe is still a debate at this late date), interracial marriage, gambling, prostitution, and drug use, just to name a few. There can be no doubt that such things as seatbelt laws, helmet requirements, and even speed limits in certain situations would have to be immediately struck down if this principle was employed consistently. When the government has decided it wants to legislate to protect you from yourself, you know it has overstepped its authority.
P.S. As for abortion, the my answer is simple: an embryo/fetus that cannot experience pain (i.e. before 18 weeks gestation) is not a moral patient, and therefore is not a "person" under the law and has no rights. Also, none of the above applies to minors (i.e. children), as they do not possess their full rational faculties and cannot give consent.
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@jonathanalvarez3875 I never said the government should pay off all existing debt. Only that it should work towards implementing a plan that would subsidize college education under certain conditions, namely: 1) The student exhibits sound academic progress, 2) The majors in highest demand would be covered entirely (Nursing, Business, Computer Science, Law, etc.), and 3) each university's budget is reviewed prior to gaining approval for federal subsidies. Beyond just covering tuition at public colleges, this would guarantee a profit for private universities as well, as they will no longer have to worry about students defaulting on their loans. So in the end, most or even all private institutions may transition to the public sector. Of course, this would have to be funded through taxpayer costs, and I would suggest a securities tax, a 50% inheritance tax for those worth $5 million or more, and 60% income tax on those earning $50 million or more. I consider this plan to be far superior to a UBI option, which may be necessary in the future as automation develops but can be sidelined for a later time.
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@marconapolitano2821 Actually, according to a report by the World Health Organization in 2016, only Sweden has a slightly higher suicide rate than the U.S. (13.8/100,000 as compared to 13.7), while the other Nordic countries--Iceland, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, and Denmark--are much lower at 13.3, 11.7, 10.1, 9.6, and 9.2, respectively. You're entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts.
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@marconapolitano2821 Private charity? Are you kidding me? So you want to put all the power into just a few wealthy elite and hope that they spend their busloads of cash the way you want them to, meanwhile we have thousands if not millions who are struggling day to day just to afford to feed their kids? That is a sick joke. I used to think the way you do, but empirical observation (i.e. the success of the Nordic countries and Germany/Australia/Japan/etc.) has revealed to me that government is the only solution to this problem. We must be able to hold our elected representatives accountable, and do their jobs by providing us with basic services like access to free healthcare and university in the same way that they provide firefighting and law enforcement. But you probably want to privatize those too, because that will somehow make everything better and bring about some sort of capitalist utopia (there are none currently in existence, nor will there ever be). It's a scam. Anarcho-capitalism will just widen the wealth divide until a majority (51% or more) are struggling to survive while the top 1% can have everything they want. What we have now isn't even close to a meritocracy, and establishing that kind of Ayn Rand free-for-all unfettered capitalism will have the same effect as outright communism: tyranny and wealth by a few over the majority. It's exactly the situation Karl Marx predicted would occur (proletariat vs. bourgeoisie), and I fear it will have exactly the same consequences as people grow more and more desperate. The OECD countries I just mentioned avoided this catastrophe by enforcing minimal regulations (i.e. labor unions allowed to organize and negotiate) and re-distributing some of the wealth in the form of social programs to fulfill people's "social rights" (right to grow up in a household with decent income, access to free healthcare, free university tuition when certain conditions are met, and so on). That's social democracy and that's what we should be aiming for, because it will make America the most prosperous highly populated nation in the world.
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@fuckgoogleforever Well let's start with the fact that 28.9 million Americans are uninsured, accounting for almost 11% of the population as of 2019. https://www.kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/key-facts-about-the-uninsured-population/
On top of that, 72 million Americans (accounting for 41% of the working population) are experiencing debt problems because of medical bills as of 2007. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-article/survey-79-million-americans-have-problems-medical-bills-or-debt
Moreover, one in four Americans are currently experiencing problems with medical bills, and nearly one in three have delayed medical attention because of cost concerns. Also, in the U.S. 69% of adults reported having difficulty with shopping around (indicating a lack of price transparency). The U.S. also spends far more on healthcare than other developed countries where service is free or very low cost. Clearly, we're doing something wrong.
https://www.singlecare.com/blog/medical-debt-statistics/
And finally, for the first time in over fifty years average life expectancy in the U.S. dropped two times in a row to 78.6 years in 2016. 25 other developed countries, meanwhile, have an average life expectancy of 81.8 years as of 2015. What's the culprit? One huge factor is the opiod epidemic, of which the U.S. accounts for 27% of the world's overdose deaths with only 4% of the world's population. That's 7 times higher than the rate of overdoses in the European Union in 2014, with a population of over 500 million (or about 6.7% of the world's population). Why is this so? Because in the U.S., doctors are incentivized under a privatized system to prescribe more pills without listing all of its effects. This isn't nearly as much of an issue in countries with government-run healthcare, as we can clearly see.
https://www.singlecare.com/blog/medical-debt-statistics/
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