Now here's a story you have to read to believe just how stupid the world has become. OK, digest the following foxnews story and see if your logic fault LED lights:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,434166,00.html
An obese patient, bed-ridden, pleads for help as his heart fails. His weight: a staggering 990 standard pounds of sallow, drooping flesh. The man cannot get up from his special bed; hasn't been able to for some years, yet claims he cannot keep from overeating .. has an "eating disorder". The authorities actually attempted to remove this man to a hospital using a pickup truck but he died anyway enroute to the hospital. Later at the funeral, his family is critical of the government for not acting sooner to save the man. They claim it's the government's fault that the man got so huge .. that he was allowed to die like that. Incredibly, this occurs in Mexico .. not exactly known for having a fawning government which caters to its citizens' personal needs.
Has that LED lighted yet? Got any really outstanding questions on this one?
Well, DUH!
Somebody had to be feeding the man; he couldn't get his own food because he couldn't leave the bed. That's the person that caused this man to die. Well, DUH! All that needed to be done was to throttle this sow's food intake down to the bare minimum required to sustain him and he would have begun to lose weight. Right?? Somebody was enabling this blimp to overeat and that's the person the family should be complaining about, not the government.
If it occurred to you that someone other than the government was responsible for this guy's death, give yourself five points. If it outraged you, you get ten.
