[jlewallen]

I applaud your efforts to understand this as I'm eager to also. It's a mentality or similar to one I've found myself in deadlock with before. For example, I asked a relative of mine if they would sacrifice themselves to save the lives of N number of people and there was no value of N they considered worth more than their own life. This relative found it uncomfortably easy to ignore and even justify the suffering of strangers. Not to say that the GP feels precisely this way. I'd hate to ascribe this particular belief to anybody that didn't directly espouse it.

[arethuza]

I think that's a completely different argument and one that I'm not sure anyone could come up with a sensible answer unless they were actually put in that position.

However, I can definitely understand the argument that being forced to pay taxes to pay for the healthcare of other people is unfair. I just happen to not agree with it but I don't think its unreasonable that other people don't agree with me on that point.

[jlewallen]

Agreed, and sorry, didn't mean to imply they were similar arguments at all.

[gspetr]

I believe this book will help you to understand: https://archive.org/stream/MightIsRight_966/MightIsRight#pag...

[arethuza]

In case anyone is wondering what that link is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_Is_Right