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Old 01-12-2008, 12:42 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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As I said in another thrad, the American people will trade Freedom for Order. And in still another thread, the reason is because Americans are motivated chiefly by Fear. Order protects, and Freedom threatens the fearful,
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Old 01-12-2008, 01:05 PM
 
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Well that is pretty cynical, jtur88, butI guess history has born it out. Also, as was stated, most are not willing to think for themselves, mentally lazy, easily distracted, etc. so lends to top heavy governmental control over us.
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Old 01-12-2008, 01:41 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Also, as was stated, most are not willing to think for themselves, mentally lazy, easily distracted, etc. so lends to top heavy governmental control over us.
Isn't THAT the truth!! I'm now 50, but it seems to me that government began it's micro-managing in every area of our life when we...as a society...we became too retarded to govern ourselves.

Example: I remember when it became a law to have to wear seatbelts. Some people fussed....not because the seatbelts were bad....but because they were pissed off that the government thought they had a right to tell them what to do in their own vehicle. People should just have had enough common sense to WANT to wear a seatbelt instead of flying thru their windshield. However, they didn't, so government had to step in and make it mandatory.

The same is true when it comes with how many donuts a person choses to eat. You would think a person will see their Whale Tail and decide to cut down on their own. But they don't. So, government steps in and thinks it has to legislate something this stupid.

People need to start taking responsibility for their own decisions and then it doesn't leave such a BIG door for special interest groups and government to come in and take away the ability for them to make their own choices.

I think every individual has the right to chose what they eat, drink, smoke, and who they sleep with. Unfortunately, they get sloppy in their decisions, hurt the people around them, and then government has to come along and make a bunch of baby rules for adults.
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Old 01-12-2008, 01:53 PM
 
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Oh no, are they regulating the donuts now?!! Should I be buying in bulk??
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Old 01-12-2008, 02:52 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Fear mongering has become a huge business. When I was a kid, everything I knew about the outside world came from riding in a car, standing up and looking out the window. Now kids have to be strait-jacketed with their eyes below window-sill level.

The best example of irrational terror came just the other day. My bus stopped in traffic right by the back of a school playground, during recess. The playground was enclosed by a 6-foot high chainlink fence, and kids were playing on swings just inside the fence. One lady on the bus said "Those swings are too close to this busy street." I was really baffled trying to think what possible danger there could have been to those kids, but if she writes to her congressmen, the school might have to spend money from its strapped education budget to move the swings further away from 'danger'. But in her mind, she is so transfixed with the idea of children in danger, that her mentality actually searches constantly for examples that she can inflate into measures that ought to be imposed on society.

Parents do not know what real fear is, nowadays, even though they go through the motions. My parents had to quarantine me all summer, for fear of polio. Now, THAT was something for parents to fear.
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