Got it.

Where are the Republican ad makers with this stuff? Why isn’t this being spouted on TV ads 24/7 the way it would be if it were a Republican health plan and Fox News had said this?

The absolute gall of the media never ceases to amaze and disgust.

It’s only madness from the perspective of a person who wants to live a long life.

From the perspective of a power mad Statist, it’s entirely rational. From that perspective, nothing is more satisfying that having the power of life and death over other human beings.

Plus, there is the side benefit that once you have that power, you are very difficult to displace. It took from about 600 AD to Oct 19, 1781 before anybody in the Western world was able to do it. And it still hasn’t happened anywhere else in the world.

So if that’s the fundamental problem, wouldn’t it be a good idea to fix it.

Pass tort reform, and that problem instantly goes away.

But it can’t happen.

If it did, how would Democrats steal enough money to live like princes and rule over us like emperors?

This is madness. More evidence (as if any more evidence were needed) of the Liberal Death Wish. Complete and utter madness.

The first principle of practical reason tells us that if something is good we should pursue it, and if it is bad we should avoid it. The consistent pursuit of what is bad––either for oneself or for others (and especially for those to whom one owes a duty of care)––constitutes the kind of bad behavior that psychiatric clinics are designed to prevent or cure.

Consistently injurious behavior is an indication of serious psychological disorder. Note that the occasional pursuit of bad or harmful things is normal. People often make irrational choices. But to do so repeatedly and consistently, and to insist emphatically upon it, is a sign that the person is mentally deranged.

It may be argued in his defense that this person is being deliberately destructive for personal reasons that seem good to him. For him, on a subjective level, the destruction feels good. He takes delight in destruction. In that case, however, his behavior is still irrational, and his actions are still wrong. If he persists in such behavior, we would be justified in recognizing that he is a madman, although perhaps we might also call him a criminal.

We may of course argue over what is good and what is bad. But about some things there is little room to argue. For example, we may all agree that human life is a basic good. It is in fact the primary good. It is good to be alive. Life is to be preferred to death (for individuals) or to annihilation (for nations or peoples). No reasonable and impartial person would seriously dispute this. This is why we expend precious resources on everything that is useful and advantageous to the preservation of human life––this is why we have medical schools, physicians, nurses, hospitals, medicines, pharmaceutical companies, medical technology and devices, and ambulances.

It is irrational to want to reduce those life-preserving medical resources. It is irrational to wish to replace them with a system of equal distribution of a more limited supply of medical resources. It is irrational because human life is a basic good. The goal of equal distribution is bad, because it results in unnecessary suffering and death––although perhaps it may seem to be subjectively good to particular individuals who operate on an irrational level––such as people under the delusion of Marxist ideology and other psychopathic criminals.

Madness.