Hobby Lobby ahole threatens to close all stores

[Nuclear Unicorn]

77. I'm deliberately ignoring your appeal to costs because it is immaterial.

If we wanted all law to reflect what is most pragmatic we would attach penalties to bearing and rearing out-of-wedlock children. The body of research that shows children from single-parent households lag behind their peers despite the personal heroism of their parents is irrefutable.

Is this really how you want our laws fashioned? I don't. That's why I ignore such appeals.

If we followed your "logic", then it would be acceptable for an employer to not include maternity benefits if he had a belief the over-population is destroying our ecosystem.

I would defend that person not because I agree with them,* but instead I defend the principle that I refuse to tell them what they can or cannot believe in or what they should or should not purchase with their money no matter how stupid, useless or expensive their belief may be.

When you say, "It's cheaper" you're really saying "for me." If he, as an employer would welcome higher costs to not support elective BC then that is his choice, just as sure as it is his choice to pay his employees above minimum wage even though the law allows him to pay a lower wage. But we all know you're referring to the pool you yourself must pay into. So, in reality what you really mean is you don't like the fact you are forced to drink from the same glass because of the cost to you.

I would prefer a system where we all get our own glasses and fill them with what we want. My husband's policy also covers rehab for IV drug abuse. Neither me or Lover Boy would ever contemplate recreational use of IV drugs, yet we have to pay all the same. And to be honest I'm a little cheesed-off at the thought I have to pay for someone else's foolish choices -- but the law says...

Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a system where you and I pooled our money for policies that were cheaper because we weren't paying for rehab and maternity costs we don't wish to utilize?

If you want to talk cost, there is no lower cost when all providers supply the exact same coverage, without variation. If A = B = C = D then what you really have is a monopoly by A, only with different letterhead. Monopolies -- without exception -- degenerate into higher costs and poorer service.



* Someone once mentioned their concern for over-population to my Lover Boy. "Lead by example," he said. Then he pointed off to the distance saying, "The Whisper-Chipper was over there try to be useful and aim for the garden." Oh, how I wish I had his wit.