I don't recall bringing morality into it. It's a matter of behaving responsibly. If you want to take risks, you should accept the responsibility that goes along with the risks.
I'm saying the state shouldn't make it's self responsible for the bad choices people make.
You don't understand, Mach. Since the advent of
(trumpet flourish) Obamacare!™, the risks that any given individual take are the problem of everyone, since we're all paying for the treatment needed to counteract his or her bad choices. Under
(trumpet flourish) Obamacare!™, we need to make sure that our friends and neighbors understand that cigarette smoking, eating fast food, and bike riding without kneepads and a helmet can no longer be tolerated, because those behaviors lead to injuries which cost the taxpayers money, and we all suffer as a result. Probably eventually we'll have to also outlaw mountain climbing, race car driving, horseback riding, and swimming in salt water, because those are risky, too, and we don't want to strain the fragile medico-economic system provided to us by
(trumpet flourish) Obamacare!™.
There are two exemptions to
(trumpet flourish) Obamacare!™, however. Teenagers going into the bushes and boffing like rabbits are exempt, because we all
know they're incapable of controlling themselves, so we just have to allow them to engage in the Horizontal Bop whenever the mood strikes them, and of course the Landed Nobility (aka Congress) are exempt, because they have Decreed From On High that they don't have to participate in
(trumpet flourish) Obamacare!™ like the rest of us unwashed mortals.
What a great country we live in!