04-06-2018, 07:38 AM
(04-05-2018, 10:52 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Is this a serious argument that somehow the lives of people outside the party are more worthy of emergency services than those within?
Yes, EMS has a duty to serve everyone in need, but I think the intent of the comment was that intentionally drinking yourself into a coma is completely preventable event where as someone randomly getting hit by a car or having a heart attack is largely unpreventable. Someone having a bad day and getting hit by a car shouldn't have to die at the expense of someone else's selfish and law breaking choices.
It is the same reason we teach children not to call 9-1-1 unless it is a true emergency - it ties up resources that can be properly used elsewhere.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.