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Is the world a safer place because of Seniors who disregard free medical services made available to them?
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Well, as most of you recognized, this post (and the YouTube link) amounted to what appears to be a funny European commercial or Public Announcement. And although I have friends on here who have answered my post and (in my heart) I favor helping them by giving them the best answer if it's a toss up, I am today going to go with the will of the people. It seems mswana has captured the appreciation of the majority and also yours truly, so she gets the prize. lol.
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- mswnanaLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
I would say so in this case. We have a commercial over here where a woman is calling her cat and lets in a raccoon because she cannot see well. I laugh every time I see it.
Source(s): Me. - ?Lv 710 years ago
Uh, to the other answerer, there is no indication other than the alarm going off that it was being stolen. It was just a bunch of kids that probably set their own alarm off.
But to the question of free medical services, I suppose it depends on your definition of the words free, medical, and services.
Is if really free if you pay your taxes and those taxes pay for the services? Isn't it so that the more people that take advantage of these services, the more money the government pays toward these services? So if a person objects to their taxes going toward such a service, isn't the only truly democratic way to prevent this to simply not partake of these services?
Generally a service is something that you want done for you. If someone does not want the service, then of what service is it to them?
Medical records are generally confidential. Many would object to the government having an excuse to look at ones medical records. Who knows who could be in the position of power and what abuses they might try. Certainly anyone who has a fear of their freedom being taken away is not going to want to give the government any information which may be used as an excuse to do so. I would not want to participate in a free eye exam if it meant giving the government a foothold into my private life such that they might take away my rights by declaring me unfit.
The video was obvious comedy which is certainly no basis for making a proper decision.
Neither are anecdotes of senile people any reason to believe that all seniors are dangerous to society. That is a clear fallacy.
People are becoming "senile" at a younger age in areas where water is fluoridated. It seems that a combination of aluminum cookware and fluoridated water results in young Alzheimers.
The American Dental Association continues to recommend the addition of fluoride to the water supply in spite of the evidence of its harm to mental health. Wonderful, I'll have fewer cavities while I'm a drooling vegetable. It's enough to make anyone distrust anyone in a white coat.
- Anonymous10 years ago
How do we know that car was being stolen? Those men may have been on their way to report the old lady to the police! How did she get her car out, without moving the other car?
Since the cars were the same make , style and model, and the same color , What good would an eye exam do?
- KatyluvLv 410 years ago
That is funny. Do they allow such language in U.K. commercials? Some commercials now are far better than the terrible television programs these days.
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- Anonymous10 years ago
That's funny. I don't think such public service ads could appear on American TV. We're a very nice nation and we don't allow bad language here.
- Kitty 2Lv 710 years ago
Well at least that old lady helped someone to keep their car from being stolen.. and it wasnt even her car.. Good one..
- Anonymous10 years ago
Thank God, she is not Scottish.