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Originally Posted by Thymeclock
The Nanny State is not about protecting us from the actions of others. It is about the government supposedly protecting us from our own behavior. Government will forever dominate adults if it can take away their freedom to fail and interminably treat them like children, from cradle to grave.
Maybe you don't mind being dominated and treated like a child, but adult, free men and women find it demeaning and reprehensible.
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If humans as a species didn't always demonstrate foolish self destructive behavior, these laws wouldn't have been made.
Adults act like children all the time. They refuse to listen to reason out of blinding pride. They don't know how to manage their money, eat too much junk food, and take drugs that eventually kill them. These are the basics of understanding our human race.
It is only logical that a gov't hired by the people to watch over us would make such laws. Were we not collectively a bunch of morons so frequently and so unwilling to accept personal responsibility we sue others for our own folly, gov't would be unecessary.
Sure I don't like feeling constrained by silly laws. But what do you expect? People are not collectively intelligent, they are collectively sheep needing a dog to herd them into submission and nip at their heels when they wander too far from safety.