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Sarcasm? All you've done with your example is trade one set of authoritarian, capricious rules with another. How about we just stop dictating people's lives?
by ahallock 14y ago
Sarcasm? All you've done with your example is trade one set of authoritarian, capricious rules with another. How about we just stop dictating people's lives?
- derefr 14y ago> How about we just stop dictating people's lives? But then what would politicians do all day? Seriously, "making laws that dictate people's lives" are the things they can point to to say they're doing any job at all. They have a strong incentive to make those kinds of laws. What is needed more than anything is to remove that incentive.
- ahallock 14y agoThey have a huge incentive to sell their political power; it's their 'product'. I really don't have much hope for reforming the current system. It's too entrenched and has too much momentum.
- mistercow 14y agoEven if you don't think the government should be prohibiting dangerous substances, you must surely concede that prohibiting actually dangerous substances* is still better than prohibiting safe substances. * Leaving aside that the most common artificial sweeteners aren't actually dangerous substances