You can ask your average person: Do you wish people would exercise more? Take more of an interest in their health? Stop eating too much? Stop smoking? Stop drinking so much? Stop gambling away their kids' college funds?Of course the answer is "yes" to all of these (for most respondents).
But again that's just the sales pitch, not the actual offer.
Give them the actual offer and most will say No. Because the actual offer is:
Do you wish to empower a cadre of busybody bureaucrats, who frankly are largely mediocrities at best, but believe themselves to be chosen for greatness, to boss you around your whole life, in order to make sure some other people aren't eating french fries and having a cigarette?
The real answer is "NO!," because the real answer is, "Look, sure I want other people to live better lives, but frankly, I don't care very much about that and I'm sure not paying for my own personal censor to scold me for making "bad" choices."
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Don't you just love the "Liberal" battle cry of "But we only want to make sure that you don't come to any harm ..." or "Do as we tell you! It's good for you!"
Posted by The Gray Monk | August 5, 2011 1:27 AM
Posted on August 5, 2011 01:27