Dear Editor:
Re: Dumb & Dumber, June 17 Viewpoint
A very disrespectful headline in reference to the idea that Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner’s idea of forcing gangsters who don’t co-operate with police to pay their own medical bills.
Mayor Hepner is right! You make a bad choice, you pay the price.
So they might not seek medical help if they have to pay for it. Who cares if they make that choice?
The same goes for out-of-bounds snowboarders if they deliberately do so.
It’s like saying it’s OK to have a serious accident when you choose to make the bad choice of speeding or driving distractedly or under the influence of drugs/alcohol.
And it should be tobacco companies who pay for lung cancer patients’ medical costs not the weak minded person who was convinced by tobacco company advertising to make a bad choice to smoke — who knew of the consequences?
Your analogy sounds Dumb & Dumber.
F.L. Nicholson
North Vancouver
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