If you make people responsible for their health, you also have to be aware of the consequences, is Plantinga’s opinion. ‘Take someone who’s too fat and becomes ill as a result. Do you then say “It’s your own fault”? Will that person then have to pay all their own health costs?’ Plantinga thinks that that would be a ‘very dangerous’ development. ‘We would then be moving towards a society of blaming and shaming. At the moment healthy people cover the costs of the ill. In the future that could be the healthy being rewarded and the ill punished.’