Maybe it's because I'm female, or maybe I'm overly sensitive, but I DO care about other people's health. I do not go out when I am sick unless it is an emergency in which case I will go straight to where I need to go, staying as far away from people as possible the whole time, and come straight home. If I am sick and I go to the doctor's office, I will stand against the wall instead of sitting beside someone else. If I am too sick to stand, I sit in the floor as far away from the others as possible.
I care about the lives of the unborn babies of mothers who think of them as nothing but accidents that need to be cleaned up. Abortion has a choice for the mother, and believe me I do feel for the women who get pregnant and do not want to be, but my heart aches more for the children who cannot choose to live. Whether or not they are technically "alive" a few weeks after conception can (and may) be argued forever, the POTENTIAL for life exists, and it hurts me to see that snatched away just because a woman had sex before she was ready to have a child.
I care about the lives of the children whose parents smoke in the same room with them and cause them health problems. I had bronchitis and severe ear infections several times a year for the first 15 years of my life because my father smoked so much. When I was 15 I wasn't at home as much and I spent alot more time outside and in my room instead of in the living room with him and my health improved dramatically. For me, the proof that secondhand smoke causes illness had already been proven. I support smokers' rights to smoke, and I do not try to lay claim to smoking areas, so smokers should respect my rights as well.
I care about the lives of the other people on the road with me, so I do not drink and drive, I do not use a cell phone will driving, I do not eat while driving, I do not apply makeup or even check myself in a mirror while driving.
I care. Honestly, I do. I have extreme respect for human rights and human life.
It is things like abortion that really tear me up, though. It's a hard choice. The hardest, really. Because it's unfortunate that the rights of one person (the potential child) must be infringed upon in the worst possible way to protect the rights of another person. I do believe abortion should be an option in cases of rape or incest, but I don't know where to draw a line when a woman makes the choice to have sex and ends up pregnant. I think it is awful that a child has to give up his or her right to life simply because a woman made a bad decision.
I care too much. *sigh*