Re: Paying a homeless person to eat dog poop
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Here's a similarly structured argument: Being a fire-fighter is dangerous. Paying people to fight fires is like paying people to risk serious bodily harm.
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No, not a good analogy.
Factors to consider:
Fire-fighters serve the community by protecting their safety; poop eaters either do not serve the community or do so as entertainment only
Fire-fighters have protective equipment and are not expected to risk their lives to stop a fire (dead rescuers are not as effective as live rescuers); poop eaters risk the bacterial infection without protective equipment.
Moreover, poop eaters who become sick from eating poop will likely receive government-subsidized health care or death services, thus placing a burden on society.
It's immoral, illegal, bad idea, not good capitalism and it's not even close.
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