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At 11:39 PM 10/6/95 -0400, Roderick Farb wrote: >I don't know this for a fact but the origin of the prohibition may be the= =20 >French Navy. I don't know the reason for it. In a country where the=20 >government supplies the medical care to its citizens it would be pretty=20 >easy to cut someone off from health care for a violation of government=20 >rules.=20 Er, up here (in Qu=E9bec), we have this "darn socialized" medicine <propaganda>(costing 40% less PER CAPITA than the US's, but EVERYONE is guaranteed coverage, no matter what)</propaganda> system, and to my knowledge, no one has ever denied any care, nor was ever penalized for "breaking government rules" (and I *KNOW* several dopes who did injure themselves through their own stupidity, yet were not penalized for it nor denied treatment). <anti-english flame>To my knowledge, only anglo-saxon countries will deny coverage for "breaking the rules" (what comes to mind is the british medicare who refuse treatment to heavy smokers - such a thing is unthinkable in a French country). Finger-pointing and blame sticking seems to be a popular element of anglo-saxon culture.</anti-english flame> (With apologies to aussies who clearly are not that low - to what I can make with the few data I have from Up Above). As for the prohibition, it can be anything whimsical the "Royale" (French Navy) has thought*, for sport diving in France is mostly under the FFESSM, who has a direct filiation to the "Royale"... But French laws and regulations are very much respected because they're generally issued by thoroughly knowledgeable people - under every seemingly stupid nit-picking rule, there is a very firm foundation of solid cartesian logic... * Historically, the French were never a naval power, despite the fact that they accumulated over the years a tremenduous amount of naval know-how, capability and technology (for example, France's aircraft-carrying Surcouf was the largest submarine at the start of WW-II; their navy was second largest in the world, too, until it got sunk - by the british - at Mers-El-K=E9bir), most often scuttled without a second thought. The= scuttling mentality equally applied to ships, men and ideas. --------------------------------------------------------------- Jesus may love everyone, but when this Jesus instills hatred in people to the point of having them kill each other for Jesus's sake, this could be a good reason to have Jesus outlawed. ---- Marc Dufour ---- [\] ---- http://www.cam.org/~mdufour ----
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