So often, our views on an issue change when we are personally affected or exposed. When this occurs, I believe it reveals hypocrisy on our part. Shouldn’t our points of view be the same whether we are affected or not? Of course, it should be but we all know that this is not the case. Here’s a stark example illustrating my point. Many of us support a policy prohibiting paying ransom for hostages. Doing so, we argue, only encourages the taking of future hostages. However, might our intellectual view on this issue be different if one of our loved ones was taken hostage? I suspect that it would be. I could have cited ransomware as another example. It’s easier to advise a business not to pay the criminals to restore its data and functionality from a safe perch. There are still millions of people here in America without health insurance. I suspect that most folks out there with medical insurance who are busy with ...
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