(08-02-2022, 03:37 PM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(08-02-2022, 03:31 PM)SeldomRite Wrote: If it's within our power to heal them then I say whatever the cost is fine. If it's not, then they should get whatever medical treatment can lessen the issue. Regardless of the cost.

When someone goes into a war theater and is injured following unnecessary orders, especially if their superiors should have known they were likely to be injured (having people tend toxic burn pits seems an obvious case of likely to injure), then they should be cared for to the best of the country's ability to do so.

What if it costs so much that the country is finally bankrupted to the point where we don't have a country any more?  Would you pay that cost?  Would you use the entire federal budget to heal them?  Obviously not.  So I doubt that you would pay "any cost, no matter how much" to heal them.

If there is actually a medical solution for them that costs that much then I say do it. I don't think there would be, I mean, is the cure grinding up priceless paintings and injecting them with it?

Just because you would put a price on their lives and say, "I don't think I should have to pay that much for the wrongdoings of those I put in power," doesn't mean we're all that way. I think that's the biggest problem with a lot of people have is they don't want to be held accountable for anything. The United States, via elected officials and the army they formed, did this, the United States needs to do whatever is within its power to fix it.

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