Reply #6: I'm not sure at this point if we truly have this many libertarian cranks among us [View All]

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or if the thrust of much of this insanity is based people having some kind of worship mentality for firefighters, such that this has been seen as some kind of "attack on firemen" and thus must be defended. It may be like many people who will defend the police no matter how egregious their behavior, lest they be seen has "anti-police". The fireman were, in my opinion, pretty heartless in what they did. However, it's the system that is wrong. It's the philosophy behind it that is perverse. No one is really blaming the firemen for this philosophy or this system. You have kind of tipped your hand by referring to the "free rider" (You might as well say "deadbeat", you know you want to). But for almost everyone else, we have to get past the question of right or wrong on the technical points of who paid and who didn't and who had notice and who was just doing their jobs and ask yourself, is this the world we want to live in?