Hi, I’m back. Sorry for the delay. Sometimes, the real world gets in the way.
To answer some of the questions posed here.
I think insurance is a great idea and I am more than willing to put in my 3 cents to help people who really had no control over the situation. If you are walking along and a car hops the curb and “bam!” you are hit – tell me where to send the money. You never smoked and was one out of 4000 people who got lung cancer. No problem – here is my check.
I object to people who make outrageous stunts expecting society to help them if/when they go wrong. We will send the search and rescue team out to save them when they get stuck. We’ll send out the Medivac helicopter. We’ll stop taking care of emergency patients in the ER to cover their “code blue” call.
Since we are a great, powerful, charitable country we will willingly put other people’s lives at risk to cover the thrill seeking whims of others.
I don’t object to anyone doing it. I would, however, like to see them sign a waiver that they will be held personally responsible for a percentage (even just 10%) of the resources their stunt cost society – meaning us.
Want to ride your motorcycle without a helmet? Fine! But sign this waiver that you will not expect society to pay for your head or brain injury should you fall at 30 mph and crack your head against the pavement. All the rehab will be out of your pocket. Deal?
Our country is not a rich as it once was. We can’t keep paying for preventible, foolish expenses. I put other things in that category – drug use. alcohol abuse, obesity, (Yep, I said it.)
Maybe it is a bit like tough love. People need to be responsible for their own actions.
We sit at our kitchen tables, sipping morning coffee, watching Thrill Porn and never think of the true expense. Shane’s family is paying some of the horrific cost. So sad.