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February 22, 2008
More Friday humour:
Leunig
The solution is a good diet and frequent exercise. Of course, the libertarians view this as the do-gooders of the Left regulating our pleasures out of existence by the Nanny state interfering in what happens in the kitchen. Food fascism.
For the libertarians this is not much different from the conservatives desire to filter internet porn and to regulate what happens in the bedroom. Both Left and Right deny individual responsibility and crush the choice of individuals to smoke, eat junk food and drink alcohol and take heroin when pregnant.
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The argument is the boundary between public and private domains. Not to mention where politic s has reaches into both. I don't think anyone would argue against 20thC politics having over-reached into both public/private and establishing a byzantium of laws. Minimila government is intended to stop absolute authority, modern politics forgets that in it continued over-reach.