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Explain Like I'm Five

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[โ€“] scott@lem.free.as 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

why should I pay for someone else's health care?

I can't even.

IT GOES BOTH WAYS!

Could also be, "because we live in a society" which is a structure where a group of people help each other. That sentence falls apart quickly if applied to anything else: "why should I pay for someone else's road/water pipe/utilities poles"