At 02:51 +0000 4/3/07, Julius No wrote:
> > Youth dies of toothache:
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> How would a truly free market have prevented his
> death or did such a concept ever exist in practice?
Starting at the foundation:
1. In a true free market, people would not bother to have kids without
being able to pay for them out of pocket. Without the sub standard
public schools, etc. One can guess the universe would be far healthier
since people would be paying attention to that which matters instead
of pretending health is government's job.
2. This would ideally include educating them to know their body.
Julius,
WRT item 2 above, you'd be surprised - or maybe not -
the number of parents/guardians who are absolutely =deathly=
afraid to discuss those matters regarding sex, with their charges.
I will consider myself lucky, as my Mother was a nurse,
and she had no reservations whatsoever discussing whatever it was
I happened to spring on her. I could almost say that she was
anticipating my every question.
By the time I was 10 years old, I knew what to expect, long
before it was going to happen.
I remember our discussions as being straightforward,
frank, and sometimes humorous, but never, =never= remonstrative.
Anecdote:
When I was 9 years old, some boys in school had mentioned
something about an 'enema,' but I was too shy to enquire of them what
was being discussed.
When I got home that day, I ask my Mother what an enema
was. She proceeded to explain in detail, and when she was through,
she grinned at me and asked: "Do you want one?"
To which I quickly exclaimed "NO!!" and went scurrying to my
room!
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increase its size and importance in direct proportion to its
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