Amtheomusings

It is very curious that we call the government’s interventions into society with the end of providing “for people’s good” paternalism, wherein the government takes it upon itself to fulfill the “parental role” by either banning or restricting the availability of some large sugary drinks or trans fats or marijuana or alcohol or tobacco or gasoline or meat or video games or fast food or medicine or cheap labor or trade with Cuba or trade with Iran or liberty or life or religion or speculation in the potato market or sound currency or failed banks or failed automative businesses or education or cheap housing or expensive housing or cheap corn or expensive corn or letting rental units be placed next to each other or plumbing or cars or freedom of assembly or protests or bullying or homophobia or racism or young people or old people or hair stylists or ice…

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