The nanny state wouldn't have to exist if people didn't make such bad choices
"It's for your own good" is a terrible reason to act, as is "if you only made the decisions I wanted you to make..." People are fully capable of handling the results of their actions on their own, and to pretend that everyone needs to be impacted by a policy because a select few might be adversely impacted by their own choices is pretty dumb. It's the same logic behind marijuana prohibition, and that's gone swimmingly.
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Date: 2013-03-19 11:45 am (UTC)"It's for your own good" is a terrible reason to act, as is "if you only made the decisions I wanted you to make..." People are fully capable of handling the results of their actions on their own, and to pretend that everyone needs to be impacted by a policy because a select few might be adversely impacted by their own choices is pretty dumb. It's the same logic behind marijuana prohibition, and that's gone swimmingly.