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Originally Posted by MattyC
What if you enlisted your kid to help you secure your house, and he shot himself with the gun you gave him?
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Then it was a dumb mistake because obviously it's a bad idea, but atleast the right to make stupid mistakes still exists.
Yeah it sucks a child died, a lot. Better than the government having the power to force treatment though, governments have been caught doing terrible things throughout history so giving them medical carte blanche is unwise imo. Let's learn and get smarter so that the same mistake doesn't happen, what was her specific illness? What specific information did the parents mistakenly follow? How can you and I stop it from happening again?
It's not the governments responsibility to take care of us because given the power they will just abuse it. Let's move away from asking the government to help us out, given the power they will incrementally become less beneficial.