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delusion-of-negation · 2 years ago

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never understood people who support benefits for anything but self-inflicted injury. putting aside that not having an arm will be equally as detrimental to your ability to work, the comeback i've heard is "people will start cutting their arms off just to get out of working!" and it's like? they won't. and if someone does, i think it would be pretty safe to say that person shouldn't be working, i'd actually say i'm of the opinion that if something is hurting badly enough that you'll, with no other motive, saw off your own arm? probably not something you should be subjected to. not to be a crazy sjw or anything, but i don't think people saw their arms off casually. i don't think that's a thing that happens. radical stance.

#if someone wants to saw off their arm for another reason and then they use that to get out of work then i think just let them tbh #that's going to be so rare that means testing anyone for any sign they've done this to themselves is a waste of time just to catch the #lucky bugger who managed to kill two birds with one saw y'know #don't even get me started on how there isn't really a line between self-inflicted and not unless you arbitrarily decide where to draw it #because in reality agency isn't that simple and nor is causality #is falling when rock climbing self-inflicted since you took the risk?#is eating unhealthy or do we just draw the line at illegal drugs hm #what prejudices are informing where you're drawing your lines bro #like on every level the idea of withholding benefits based on whether you did something to yourself simply falls apart repeatedly #it's even pragmatically just a waste of money to pry into dude

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