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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (10355)1/30/2006 11:12:48 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 541777
 
Except that isn't sensible; the analogy isn't apt- since eating is internal and thus more like abortion than it is like a seat belt used outside your body and outside your house (on public roads), and there is no statistical evidence that making all people eat peanuts would save lives and it's an invasion in to the body of people. If you don't control the inside of your body, you don't control much. On the other hand, requiring certain safety behaviors on public roads, or in public places, does not greatly distress me. Traffic stops for drunk drivers do not greatly distress me. Stopping people from urinating in public does not greatly distress me. Keeping people from shooting off guns in public does not greatly distress me. etc

I have a firm belief in the divide between the public and private in terms of regulation. I think because we live so close together (most of us) we need a fair amount of regulation of public spaces- our private spaces, though, should be as sacrosanct as possible to make up for our loss of public freedom.
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