RE: Odds and Ends — 18 December 2024
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I read about that poll in @tarazkp's post and immediately had questions, not least of which was what would be the response to a poll that asked:
"Do you think the actions of United Healthcare are acceptable or unacceptable?"
With regard to the actual poll, of course young people are going to be more accepting: they're young. Their ideals won't have started to get knocked about and worn down and they won't have had time to develop the emotional intelligence that comes with experience.
It prompted me to look up a couple of things - the Trident Ploughshares action that took place here in 1996 (I knew one of the activists), one in a long line of non-violent direct action exemplified by Greenham Common. The peace women were a wide age range and included marginal hangers-on like me who turned up to peaceful trespass actions and fundraisers, as well as the women who lived at the various camps.
And then I found Crude Opinion Polls on Death Penalty Distort Public Debate as I was investigating attitudes to the death penalty in the UK. Lucy Letby is a recent case and since her sentencing there has been some controversy about the integrity of the evidence that was used to convict her.
I think we have to keep up the discourse.
Also, many of them might still be covered under their parents’ health insurance (up until age 26 in the US). And even for the somewhat older ones, being young and mostly healthy may have had little interaction with their insurance providers and few if any claim denials.