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To: TimF who wrote (341318)	6/25/2007 4:19:45 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576318

re: I don't think its reasonable to treat adults as children, with the government as their parent. With the exception of the abortion decision of course.

To: TimF who wrote (341318)	6/27/2007 3:46:21 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576318

These choices you are discussing up above are not ones arbitrarily established by gov't. Most if not all of them are simply the gov't implementing the will of the people. That still leaves you restricting freedom of choice, its just more popular restrictions. Yes, and that's the nature of a democracy. your extreme frustration with gov't telling you what you can and can not do does not sound like an issue about choice but rather it seems to have more to do with immaturity. After all, its kids who rebel when told what they can and can not do. That's rich. Anyone who strongly supports freedom is now a child, or at least immature. You support freedoms that are desired by a minority; often a small minority. You rail against rules/laws imposed usually by majority opinion. If that isn't immature reasoning, then I don't know what is. I don't think its reasonable to treat adults as children, with the government as their parent. A child doesn't have the mental capacity and experience in life to make wise decisions about certain areas of his or her life, so the decisions get made by wiser and more experienced parents. There isn't any reason to think government/political decisions will be wiser then personal decisions in the same way that parental decisions are likely to be better then the kids making all of their own decisions. Tim, when a stop light is red you may actually stop without an prompting but some people in this country require further prompting.......such a fines. The laws are not made for a particular individual but for everyone. That sometimes requires a little dumbing down.