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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6259447" data-attributes="member: 32740">Actually, yes.&nbsp; When you let government run your life for you - right down to the food they let you eat - you put government in a position of perpetrating unthinkable abuses.&nbsp; At some point people must be left free to live their lives as THEY choose, not as the governement chooses, and to be accountable for their own decisions.&nbsp; Myself, I think that includes the government &quot;allowing&quot; people to suffer poor health due to obesity resulting from bad diet choices.&nbsp; People ultiamately cannot be protected from every bad idea (such as the government declares it to be) without doing some very destructive things to society.&nbsp; Protecting others from the results of MY bad decisions doesn't extend to governement starting to dictate everyone else's diet.&nbsp; The government is not there to be our nanny as Margaret Thatcher once said.&nbsp; Or as Ronald Reagan said, &quot;Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.&quot;No politics! Absolutely not. Thanks. - Lwaxy</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 6259447, member: 32740"] Actually, yes. When you let government run your life for you - right down to the food they let you eat - you put government in a position of perpetrating unthinkable abuses. At [I]some [/I]point people must be left free to live their lives as THEY choose, not as the governement chooses, and to be accountable for their own decisions. Myself, I think that includes the government "allowing" people to suffer poor health due to obesity resulting from bad diet choices. People ultiamately cannot be protected from every bad idea (such as the government declares it to be) without doing some very destructive things to society. Protecting others from the results of MY bad decisions doesn't extend to governement starting to dictate [I]everyone else's[/I] diet. The government is not there to be our nanny as Margaret Thatcher once said. Or as Ronald Reagan said, "[I]Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.[/I]" [COLOR=#ff0000]No politics! Absolutely not. Thanks. - Lwaxy[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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