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OK so you wont mind if I remove, by legislation, the burden of the cost of search, rescue and medical care for those who either don't read your "little red book" and can be shown to have not done so, or have taken the advice therein, but have chosen to depart with a known and precarious medical condition into the teeth of said 'remnants of cyclone'.
I will however leave in the legislation the opportunity for those who wish, to submit themselves to an examination of said “little red book” and a medical and if found reasonably fit, “license” them to go do their thing, in the knowledge that if they do it by the rules and then come unstuck, because sh!t does happen, we will move heaven and earth and the public purse to look after them.
Fair trade I think! Sound familiar too eh!.
Part of the social contract that we have with each other and that we support with our taxes is that we behave responsibly, for own own safety and others benefit.
Since that is a principal not widely understood by a good number of our fellow citizens, a demonstration of which one can see daily on the roads for example, we have found it necessary to do a spot of policing. Not that they always set all that good an example of smarts either, but it's the best we've got.
In any event until that unlikely day comes, we have to protect ourselves and themselves from themselves.
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axioms which is very apt.
An old Hindu proverb said, "a man without a stick will be bitten even by a sheep",