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- From: minch@lotka.stanford.edu (Eric Minch)
- Subject: Re: Drug testing and welfare
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.171230.2683@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service)
- Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
- References: <iL8NoB18w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:12:30 GMT
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- In article <iL8NoB18w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- writes:
- > Whatever happened to the idea of personal responsibility, anyway? If
- I drink
- > a bottle of bleach, it's my own damn stupid fault. Surely the same
- principle
- > applies if I choose to take dangerous drugs?
- >
- No, in this country if you drink a bottle of bleach it's the
- manufacturer's fault for not putting a notice on the bottle saying "Do
- not drink this bleach". Or if there is a notice, it's not big enough.
- So you sue (or your heirs do) and get a million bucks. It's what keeps
- the economy going.
-
- Presumably this is the basis for drug testing welfare recipients. If a
- welfare recipient uses money to buy drugs and then becomes addicted or
- dies, a lawsuit against the government would be in order (since they
- provided the money). By making sure the money is not used for drugs,
- the government is just keeping its insurance premiums down.
-
- See, it's all so simple when you think about it.
- --
-
- Eric Minch Any resemblance to the opinions of persons
- Epistemic Artisan or organizations other than myself--living,
- Stanford Genetics dead, or imaginary--is purely fortuitous.
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