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[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

To show how wonderfully tolerant this place is of nonsense:

In my utopia breast augmentation surgery will be outlawed (save for procedures done for illness reasons) on two grounds:

1) It's a waste of valuable resources*
2) They look bad

Discuss.


*In my dream utopia, healthcare is not only "free" (well, Universal) it's also mandatory

Can't have the sick bring down the healthy

Comments

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

A doctor visit every 6 months (or, ya know, the doc comes and visits you!) is bad?

Meh. I disagreed with many over whether Brave New World was all that dystopic.

Phenomenological happiness is where it's at.

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

A doctor visit every 6 months isn't bad, being forced to a doctor's visit every six months is. Similarly, a meal 3 times a day is great -- being forced by the government to eat 3 times a day is a different thing entirely.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

While that is true, it's not within your rights (IMO) to endanger everyone (even if it's a low degree of danger) else because you don't like needles.

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

The utility from the minimal boost in public safety that this would ensure is far outstripped by the freedom sacrificed.