Cimmerian Nights said:
Agreed.
It's still funny.
Just "WoW" ... Firefighters let home burn
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Agreed.
It's still funny.
In a democracy the voters make the law (well, hereabouts) or elect people to make them (US, EU). Most countries decide whats the job of the government and what is up to citizens. In every country there are question asked if Security (Police, Army, Firefighters), Education (Shools), Transportation (Trains, Buses), Infrastructure (Water, Power, Sewers, Roads) and Healthcare should be the job of the government or left to private companies.
I personally am happy to live in a place where matters of safety are mostly left to the state. Its all very well arguing for the responsibilities of the individual, of freedom and such nice things but there are such things like greed, stupidity and lazyness and no amount of freedom will change that. In fact, freedom allows greed to run rampant.
There are big houses, with tons of flats, dozens if not hundreds of inhabitants. Now imagine you rent a flat in a big house. It burns, but the owner of the house is a greedy bastard that saved his 75 bucks. Oh, he will loose the house, but he probably is not living there himself. I am sure people sitting in such a building will have a warm feeling of freedom and responsibility while watching the Firemen down below calculate their earnings or potential loss. Or perhaps some accountant a few days later will find a misplaced payment for the insurance. Or some dude checked the accounts for the wrong building… The price for freedom is often paid by those who don’t benefit from the freedom.
In cases where lives are at stake and where the loss of property is greater than the effort for saving that property would be, people have to act. Policemen, Firefighters and Doctors alike. I don’t think this is a problem, because a lot of those people are doing their job not only because of the money, but also because of their moral stance.
Unless of course the voters of that place decide to forbid them to help, so that somebody can get a lot of money from people. In which case I am torn between two answers. The cynic: fuckers get the laws and government they deserve, it’s a democracy. If they want to burn, let them burn. Or the sympathetic: poor buggers, got told a load of crap and believed it.
I personally am happy to live in a place where matters of safety are mostly left to the state. Its all very well arguing for the responsibilities of the individual, of freedom and such nice things but there are such things like greed, stupidity and lazyness and no amount of freedom will change that. In fact, freedom allows greed to run rampant.
There are big houses, with tons of flats, dozens if not hundreds of inhabitants. Now imagine you rent a flat in a big house. It burns, but the owner of the house is a greedy bastard that saved his 75 bucks. Oh, he will loose the house, but he probably is not living there himself. I am sure people sitting in such a building will have a warm feeling of freedom and responsibility while watching the Firemen down below calculate their earnings or potential loss. Or perhaps some accountant a few days later will find a misplaced payment for the insurance. Or some dude checked the accounts for the wrong building… The price for freedom is often paid by those who don’t benefit from the freedom.
In cases where lives are at stake and where the loss of property is greater than the effort for saving that property would be, people have to act. Policemen, Firefighters and Doctors alike. I don’t think this is a problem, because a lot of those people are doing their job not only because of the money, but also because of their moral stance.
Unless of course the voters of that place decide to forbid them to help, so that somebody can get a lot of money from people. In which case I am torn between two answers. The cynic: fuckers get the laws and government they deserve, it’s a democracy. If they want to burn, let them burn. Or the sympathetic: poor buggers, got told a load of crap and believed it.