So what is BTL? Finders Keepers?

Eyesparky

The fantastic thing for the nurse and fireman is that in a market economy they do have choice ... and please do not tell me that a couple on a combined income of in excess of £60K (you did say they had been at it for a while) do not have choices. Maybe if the Government had not taken so much of their hard earned money they would have even more choices.

Anyway, it has been interesting but have to give it a rest for now.

SquatNow

The most interesting point of this is that the Nurse is demanding to be paid for doing something, whereas the landlord is demanding to be paid for NOT doing something.

subjecttocontract

SquatNow wrote: »

Refusing to treat him on moral grounds is not unprofessional.

This fact is laid down in stone in the nurses "handbook" as it were.

Given that he'd forced her to hand over half of her wealth to him for the right to live, I imagine she'de have pretty strong feelings over it.

Imagine a sliding Scale:

• Man Murdered her Mother
• Man Raped Her
• Man Beat Her Up
• Man Robbed Her
• Man forced her to give him half her Money

Where on that scale would she fairly be able to refuse to treat him?

Its all acedemic cos the rich landlord already got treatment at his private hospital well away from any pain in the !!!! nurses who want to argue the toss.

TJ27

It seems to me that the landlord is so altruistic that he pays for his share in the health service whether he's ill or not. And I bet he even pays for his own private healthcare, so as not to be a burden on other tax payers. What a lovely scruffy man he must be. I would gladly hand over all my wages to live in this kind person's house.

SquatNow

TJ27 wrote: »

It seems to me that the landlord is so altruistic that he pays for his share in the health service whether he's ill or not. And I bet he even pays for his own private healthcare, so as not to be a burden on other tax payers. What a lovely scruffy man he must be. I would gladly hand over all my wages to live in this kind person's house.

I have to pay my rent whether I'm home or not.

In fact I have to pay rent if I dont want to beocme a criminal.

If I fail to pay my rent and become homeless, I become a vagrant, and become a criminal.

If a young family fails to pay their rent and become homeless, their children will be taken into care.

A landlords job is not to own real estate, it is to harrass people into paying him for access to that real estate. If you push a landlord in front of a train, the real estate doesn't suddenly vapourise, but he will stop hassling you. Land would continue to exist if no-one owned it any more.

If we all started pushing landlords in front of trains, they would stop harrassing us, but society would be no worse off as nothing would have been lost.

Eyesparky

SquatNow wrote: »

I have to pay my rent whether I'm home or not.

In fact I have to pay rent if I dont want to beocme a criminal.

If I fail to pay my rent and become homeless, I become a vagrant, and become a criminal.

If a young family fails to pay their rent and become homeless, their children will be taken into care.

A landlords job is not to own real estate, it is to harrass people into paying him for access to that real estate. If you push a landlord in front of a train, the real estate doesn't suddenly vapourise, but he will stop hassling you. Land would continue to exist if no-one owned it any more.

If we all started pushing landlords in front of trains, they would stop harrassing us, but society would be no worse off as nothing would have been lost.

That is incitement to commit an act of terror ... highly illegal.

subjecttocontract

But there are a lot of landlords ........wouldn't they all block up the tracks and stop the trains running ?:D

melancholly

SquatNow wrote: »

The most interesting point of this is that the Nurse is demanding to be paid for doing something, whereas the landlord is demanding to be paid for NOT doing something.

the landlord is demanding to be paid for use of the bricks and mortar house, the fixtures and fittings, the land, maintenance, possibly water rates and council tax, furnishings, and being on call to fix any problems with the house.

pushing landlords in front of trains...... even for SN, this is just laughable.....

just out of interest, is it just residential landlords that represent the devil himself, or do commercial landlords fall into the same category? should people have free access to set up any business they want, wherever they want?!

Alex_of_Swansea

As a nurse, yes, I am ethically obliged to treat even the most unpleasant people, and do regularly. The two scenarios are completely unrelated. You don't have to live life by the rules others give you. If the man is devoid of conscience, that doesn't mean I must be. Find a more believable scenario please.

Gorgeous_George

Come back Bruno, all is forgiven.

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom not to strangle the stubborn atheists who can't see You when You're right under their noses!



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