As to this, what is the current "Senator-friendly" statement? My copy of
this list comes as a newsletter, without attachments. I thought that the
last version appearing under your name captured the project quite well. But
I do think maybe it is about twice as long as would be best, if actual
Senators are intended to read it.
As to that, I agree that there is a lot of self-destructive behavior out
there, including what people choose to consume and that at least some of
this behavior affects others or the society as a whole or the environment.
Doubtless every one of us has a pet list of things we'd rather others didn't
do.
I don't buy the argument that other people are dummies or that the
government could know better than they about their situation, or that the
government would be in the right to start telling us what to do.
Morality is an individual attribute and IMNSHO moral education should be
conducted by individuals, with other individuals and not by the State.
Jack quoted a good one, to the affect that government or the State is just
another business. Yes it is, but a fundamentally different one. The State by
definition brooks no competition and is willing and able to enforce
consumption of its chosen goods and services by military force. So I think
it reasonable to question severely each proposal that would give the State
more to do, or more power with which to do it.
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