Worthyness Wrote:THEY WILL CRRUSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH YOUUUUUUUUUUU

I listened to the newcast, but the guy was just kinda unnecessarily, over-excessively violent (?) towards Republicans.

But firefighters should've just put the damn fire out >.> How could they seriously think that the fire wouldn't spread any further than it already had? Isn't it the fire fighter's duty to put out the fire? It is their job...

They could have easily just put the fire out and charged the guy up the yin yang. If they're going to make them pay, might as well not risk the fire spreading to other houses...

Swerve Wrote:Obion County doesn't have their own firefighters or a plan to finance such a service, so they rely on firefighters from the city of South Fulton by paying them a fee which comes out to $75 per household.

In the words of this politically slanted newscaster, I found the video to be "sickening." Yet not in the sense that the aforementioned posters are appalled with the interpretation they formed from the presentation. The newscaster cuts and edits explanations to give his viewers a limited understanding of the topic and to support his own position. Due to his egocentric obligation to promote his own ideology and to make his audience accept it, he has focused on bringing his own opinions to light and to skewer the news topic itself. Therefore leading to many posters in this thread to be confused and not quite sure of what occurred in this situation. It is ironic that the newscaster insists that the firefighters be "human beings," when he himself is a monster. A monster in the sense that his sole objective in the presentation was to blame Republicans, prioritize his own opinions, and to convince the audience. The means to achieve his goals was to use the Cranick's burned down home to express his ideology. While the Cranick's situation might touch us on a certain level, his job is to make money off of this situation and to produce profit off our emotional response. In Young Turk's own interpretation of humanism, it is would be more accurate to call him Young Thief as his job is to plunder what does not belong to him.

Ignoring my strong distaste for "Young Turk" and his mindless sophistry, comes my even stronger distaste for "Young Turk" and his horrible attempts to turn this situation into a political dialogue. The issue doesn't come down to Republicans or Democrats. To be honest, the issue is that a guy's house burned down. If we wanted to look deeper, then this really comes down to an issue of choice. Obion County doesn't have a fire department (resource), therefore it gives its citizens the choice to pay an additional fee for obtaining firemen from another county. The problem with this set-up is that it places a certain degree of trust that individuals know what they are doing and take responsibility for their actions. Instead of setting up a tax where everyone has to pay, Obion County has empowered its citizens with the ability to determine whether fire insurance is an additional fee that they would like to finance, harkening back to colonial America and the inception of the fire department by Benjamin Franklin. Unfortunately, not everyone can always handle that responsibility as indicated by the video. Even though I disagree with "Young Turk" on many levels, I have to agree with him in one aspect. This is an important situation that affects the whole country.

Situations like this justifies how the Legislative political body of America must create laws for the lowest common denominator of human error. It forms the basis for anti-laws to be created. Rules and regulations that are not formed to promote and empower the human condition, but rather to constrain it and hold its hand like a lost child because it cannot be trusted in its own regard. People cannot be trusted to even safeguard their own belongings and therefore a mandatory tax needs to be implemented so the government can force feed them and mandate that they be responsible for their own actions. As a result of this incidence, Obion County may force all citizens to now pay for firefighters. A service that fiscally conservative libertarians may not want as residents in the county, but have been forced to compensate as a result of the incompetence of one individual. Yet this is how laws are created. They are created to account for the lowest common denominator.

OB3LISK Wrote:So you're saying people are too dumb to insure/protect themselves (as in paying for the fire fighters help tax), so the government must hold their hands and force them too. *cough so you support the health care thing that everyone must be covered whether they want it or not cough*

Swerve Wrote:*snip*

Worthyness Wrote:I still think it should be the duty and priority of a firefighter to PUT OUT A FIRE, insurance or taxes or none at all. What is the damned point of just sitting there watching someone's house burn down when they're basicaly begging you to put out the fire? Seems so... Heartless.