Sunday, February 27, 2005
Enough Already !
I’m lookin’ for my can ‘o WhoopAss...
As came up in another comment thread, we choose to curtail certain behaviors in return for living in a civilized society. We don’t steal or run red lights, we keep our agreements and pay our debts. In exchange for this self-control, we live where it is pretty dang safe to walk down most streets, and drive down more. We shop and dine and conduct business in a pretty darned nice environment.
Look around wherever you live—there are trees and shop windows, flowers and no running effluvia in the streets. Compared to London c. 1450AD—we live in Heaven.
But day by day, those whom we have employed to oversee those rules we all choose to live by—well, they’re getting a tad too enthusiastic about their work. There are so many laws… There are places where I can get fined $1,000 just for smokin’ a dang cigarette! Not tossing it. Not setting someone on fire with it. Smoking it! Outside!! And I don’t even know where all those places are! How unsafe is that?!?
America has the highest percent of its population in jail of all the industrialized countries. And most of the 3rd world countries. Is that really because Americans are such Bad People? I think not.
Next on the Control Freak Agenda is the Health Police. Burgers, fries, salt?!?! All will become “offenses.” Next come penalties to control those ‘offenses.’
Where/when comes that point when we say, “Enough!”
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More: Here’s a phrase—Pepsi is cutting out ads to kids,
amid mounting pressure on governments to curb obesity
I was gonna say, “governments don’t cure obesity,” but then Soviet Russia leapt to mind....
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