Assume you’re life-lusted and are willing to abandon every moral you have just to live. Paying for cancer treatment is also worth prison time to you.

Also assume you’ve exhausted all ethical fundraising options, i.e. GoFundMe, loans, etc. and that insurance won’t cover treatment for whatever reason.

      • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyzOP
        162·
        1 year ago

        He's misusing the term. What he means is to sound superior, and although I appreciate his spirit – the Europeans and Canadians speaking up are doing so outside of the context of and therefore against the spirit of the question – I think it's fine, it's good to have non-Americans with whom to compare responses.

        That is the point of the post. There is something very wrong with this country, isn't there?

        I don't have insurance because it's too expensive and the thought crossed my mind this morning that something like that could actually happen to me, and if it did, I honestly have no idea what I would do. And then I realize that the society around me would get angry at me and morally condemn me if I did commit a crime to save my own life, and that's when I finally realized that American morality is a fucking sham. It's all designed to convince its subjects to accept being enslaved and murdered to keep the system going, and that's wrong. What good is morality if it only costs you and doesn't benefit you?

        • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 year ago

          If you look at higher education, it's also designed to convince its subjects that killing abroad for oil and economical interests is moral and good. In 2019 a third of Americans still thought the Iraq war was "worth fighting for". And you'll notice the question in the Pew research poll. It isn't "was it moral" or "is it ok we killed 1~3 million people and destabilized and entire region for economic gain", just "worth fighting for".

    • JoBo@feddit.uk
      31·
      1 year ago

      That's a bit unfair. This question is pretty much only relevant to USians and USians should be reminded of that at every possible opportunity. We're trying to help you, man.