[Ruth]

No, it isn't ridiculous. He made a valid point. I think it's ridiculous to draw a parallel between a smoker saying that and a paedophile or wife beater saying that.

The point is that the majority of people who need hospital treatment need it because of some lifestyle choice - whether it's because they play a dangerous sport, smoke, drink, do a dangerous job, whatever. You think tax payers money should not pay for treatment for any of these people? Do you think that basically, we should only ever use taxpayers money to treat people who fall ill through no fault of their own? And how would we determine that?