Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
Thanks for having the courage to provide answers. You're right it was a loaded question, designed to find things that would divide the audience and therefore show subjectivity in responses.

Your answers, however, do throw up one interesting observation. You consider the NHS evil, and yet you must have received healthcare from the NHS. By your own logic, you are therefore a hypocrit (and a wimp??), as much as Biara is, anyway.

I'd be interested to hear your take on my observation.
Your observation is correct, but the logic isn't. In fact that paragraph sums up the fundamental flaw in your argument.

Biara supports state education. The fact that his wages are plundered to pay for it, doesn't occur to him. I on the other hand do not support the NHS. I recognise that my body isn't state property. Problem is, I'm forcibly taxed to pay for the NHS. Such taxation has left me at the mercy of the NHS, because I cannot afford to pay again for private health care. Therefore I accept NHS treatment. In fact morally, I'm more entitled to treatment than someone who does support the NHS, because I know it's moral premises are wrong.

Calling me a hypocrite is a moral judgement, but morality is a matter of choice. There is no choice when it comes to paying taxes.

One last point. I do not regard NHS workers on the whole as evil.