# Phlosphr, you are a fucking idiot (re: home birth) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 17, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phlosphr-you-are-a-fucking-idiot-re-home-birth/585786 "2011-06-17T02:43:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 71
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phlosphr-you-are-a-fucking-idiot-re-home-birth/585786/71 "2011-06-17T15:14:46Z")
> [@](#): > > _ **Rand Rover** _ > > Pbbth (and the other couple of nutters who posted suimilarly), if you put together an actual argument that I’m being a hypocrite (or whatever), then I will respond. Until then I’ll just call your assertions and implications the absolute mindless drivel that they are. Here are a few of your previous quotes that I am talking about: > [@I pit Senator Bunning for killing seniors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-senator-bunning-for-killing-seniors/530594/102): > > Yes, if the businesses are allowed to compete in a free market. **People should be free to choose the service providers they like best.** > [@I pit Senator Bunning for killing seniors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-senator-bunning-for-killing-seniors/530594/120): > > I already directly answered this exact question from you upthread. The answer is yes, absolutely, affirmative, YES. **If consumers choose a particular service provider (e.g., a hair stylist, doctor, health insurer, etc.) then that’s the one they think is the best.** > [@Rand Rover: Ass](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-ass/488055/166): > > 1. **This in absolutely no way conflicts with my worldview that people are responsible for their choices. I acknowledge that it’s possible I could be richer if I had made different choices but that’s not a chance I was willing to take**. You approach financial things (and apparently, when you aren’t emotionally invested, medical things) based on the necessity of choice. According to you people should be able to choose their own providers based on what they think meets their personal needs until you don’t agree with their choice, then they are horrible people who need to be told over and over again that their children are going to die. It seems like if you really believed all the “importance of choice” stuff you wouldn’t care that he and his wife want a home birth because it is what they believe is best for them and that seems to be the basis of your entire political philosophy. Otherwise it seems like choice only matters to you when it is saving you a few bucks in the process. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phlosphr-you-are-a-fucking-idiot-re-home-birth/585786)._