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One time my parents tried to tell me they shouldn't have to pay for insulin for "fat people" and the nurse educator in me went on a fifteen minute rant about how insulin dependent diabetics are actually the ones who get it genetically in childhood and finished the rant by asking why they're advocating for the deaths of impoverished children. Not that fat people deserve to die or be sick either but come ON if you're not willing to do the research yourself then just listen to what the experts say? Everybody in America these days wants to do 0 research and just walk out into the world to convince people that lavender oil will cure their cancer.
Not that you are wrong about the rest of your comment, but not only type 1 diabetics need insulin, type 2 diabetics often become insulin dependent too, especially with poor adherance to interventions (bad diet, no excercise).
Yeah but when you're arguing with your conservative parents and you happen to have been dealt the "for the children" card, you play that one at every opportunity. I've had much more luck with the argument that punishing people they view as morally inferior often results in harming innocents which is absolutely true and the reason punitive justice is (imo) morally wrong. It's the same reason I don't believe in the death penalty; if you find out a guy is completely innocent of some terrible crime he's in the middle of serving a life sentence for, you can give him his missing salary and let him go, but you can't bring him back to life.