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>So what if he did buy booze with it? I buy booze with my money and there's nothing wrong with that.

So what if they buy a machine gun with it an kill a few hundred people? Everything has spill over effects. It isn't just your body, it's my body as well because now when you get liver cirrhosis I have to pay part of the bills that end up paying for treatment.

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On the other hand, if you were paying part of the bill for his treatment, you'd also be incentivized to help him out in ways that might prevent that fate. I believe that, at the end of the day, we're all in this together. So to me, clarifying that economically is a feature of public healthcare, not a bug.

This has always struck me as one of the stronger arguments against the idea of public healthcare, which otherwise seems like a good idea. I feel quite certain that this tool of social control would be used against me, to dissuade me from engaging in some of the dangerous activities which give me great pleasure, and am therefore extremely reluctant to accept the argument that this is a legitimate use of power against other dangerous activities I don't happen to prefer.

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