tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149265007677411344.post7233592742172558082..comments2023-05-23T05:34:38.539-04:00Comments on My Humble But Accurate Opinion: Nanny-state-ism-j.p.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13441411405225879704noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149265007677411344.post-76792943706873029752010-09-27T19:21:44.484-04:002010-09-27T19:21:44.484-04:00For me, the question is where we draw the line bet...For me, the question is where we draw the line between anarchy and totalitarianism.<br /> <br />One guiding principle has it that the less government, the better. Taken to its logical end, the absence of government is best, a philosophy I reject.<br /><br />The other extreme posits that the individual is incapable of making the best decisions for him/her self and for society at large and that therefor the government must assume this role, a position I find equally objectionable.<br /><br />We are slowly but surely sliding into totalitarianism by exchanging our liberties for the promise of protection from the burden of making decisions for ourselves, the burden of responsibility for our decisions.<br /><br />It's a bad trade, in my opinion, one that future generations will surely regret because it's always harder to wrest liberty from tyrants than to refuse ceding those liberties in the first place. <br /><br />As just one example of the liberties I speak of; While I would never encourage smoking tobacco, to criminalize smoking (consuming a legal product!) in one's own home is itself criminal. Yet, that is actually being considered, right here in the Land of the Free - http://bit.ly/cbAAOD.<br /><br />Rather than do the hard work and take the honorable approach by banning tobacco outright (and lose that precious tax revenue) the Nanny-Staters want us to trade another liberty in exchange for protection - protection from ourselves. <br /><br />My fear is that once we discover that we have received nothing more for our liberties than the false sense of security a police state offers, it will be too late to do anything about it.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656663340790755146noreply@blogger.com