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I'm such an antagonist.

But yes, it is far cheaper to let everyone sit in their cars and burn to death. Spending money on firefighters, medics, other emergency services personnel will only make the cost of clean-up post accident much much much higher.

At least the people in the smaller cheaper cars will die first, so if anyone driving by feels like being an independent hero, the people that they will likely save will be those in lesser danger, those in the big cars with better safety features. They may be able afford to pay for a personal emergency services crew, too.

Let the poor burn. Let the disabled die. Make damn sure no one spends a cent on the people who can't spend the cent to save themselves. If they deserved help, they would have become high finance lawyers or something! Take money out of my pocket to help others? Let me pick which people I help, and whether or not I help them at all.

That guy there, he believes in the flying spaghetti monster, so do I, I'll give $5.00 so he can go to the hospital and have his shattered leg worked on.
Those people who can't afford to dig themselves out of this recession on their own don't contribute to society enough anyway. Clearly. Otherwise they wouldn't have gotten laid-off, or they would have found a job after graduation, but I forgot to stick with the analogy there.

After the flames settle down, the bodies and debris are scootched off to the ditch, the survivors will buy new cars and move on with their lives.

Let's spend the minimum to push the mess out of the way, but wait until people stop crashing and burning, there's no use trying to stop another accident before it happens, that's just too costly. Just a basic clean up, Maybe a bulldozer can come through, push the carcasses off the road, and the rest of us will move on with our lives, barely a penny out of pocket.
Except that $5.00 I gave that one guy because I wanted to. I wonder if it helped him get out of that smushed up car with his family.

Never mind, that's just too gruesome to think about. Not ladylike. It's hypothetical, we aren't really dealing with real people, or real life, or real lives, right?

Fiscal Darwinism yeah!!! Go Go Go!!

Bravo, Stephanie! A fine rant.

But did you get a permit to burn all those strawmen? Or do you really think the trillions we're shoveling to auto unions, highway contractors, well-lobbied big business interests, wealthy old folks, and government employee unions is the only thing keeping our children from starving in burning non-green buildings? I don't seem to recall mass starvation, sick folks dying in the streets, or urban wildfires ten years ago with much smaller government that actually spent less than it collected in taxes.

I probably should have spent some more time editing that rant before posting, but I don't have a lot of free time lately.

That being said, Date()-10!=Date() .