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Is The Mother Of A 555 Pound 14 Year Old Boy Guilty Of CriminalNeglect?
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Dave U. Random wrote:
http://patdollard.com/2009/07/is-the...-555-pound-14- year-old-boy-guilty-of-criminal-neglect/ Imagine you are going out for a drive. From your drive way you turn left. At the first light you turn to the right, at the next you turn left again. At the third you go through the intersection, and pull into the 7-11 for a Big Gulp. Someone who follows "Negative Liberty" will read the above and think it good. You were free to drive any direction you wanted to, free to stop in at the 7-11 and get a Big Gulp because you wanted to. You were free from external forces that stoped you. Someone who follows "Positive Liberty" will read the above and think it bad. You were driven by internal forces to the 7-11. You HAD to have a Big Gulp, so you took time from your day to get one, time that you would have used for ther things if not for your thirst. You were not free from internal forces that controled you. A person who follows Positive Liberty will then insist that since you were driven by internal forces, you are not rational. You are controled, and not of your own free will. They, however, are not subject to such forces. As such, for the "greater good", laws must be passed to limit your behavior, behavior that you would have not wanted to do anyhow if not for the internal forces controlling you. If you were "better", you would thank them, so your opposition to them is a sign of just how damaged you really are. As for this 555 pound 14 year old, ask yourself first if you follow positive or negative liberty. If you are a positive liberty "for the greater good" Obama following national health care loving socialist democrat, then I would expect you to want to save this child from themself because you know best. On the other hand, if you follow negative liberty, as I do, you would think it's not government's duty to get it's nose involved since it's none of your business what someone else does. |
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Is The Mother Of A 555 Pound 14 Year Old Boy Guilty Of Criminal Neglect?
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The Master wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Dave U. Random wrote: http://patdollard.com/2009/07/is-the...-555-pound-14- year-old-boy-guilty-of-criminal-neglect/ Imagine you are going out for a drive. From your drive way you turn left. At the first light you turn to the right, at the next you turn left again. At the third you go through the intersection, and pull into the 7-11 for a Big Gulp. Someone who follows "Negative Liberty" will read the above and think it good. You were free to drive any direction you wanted to, free to stop in at the 7-11 and get a Big Gulp because you wanted to. You were free from external forces that stoped you. Someone who follows "Positive Liberty" will read the above and think it bad. You were driven by internal forces to the 7-11. You HAD to have a Big Gulp, so you took time from your day to get one, time that you would have used for ther things if not for your thirst. You were not free from internal forces that controled you. A person who follows Positive Liberty will then insist that since you were driven by internal forces, you are not rational. You are controled, and not of your own free will. They, however, are not subject to such forces. As such, for the "greater good", laws must be passed to limit your behavior, behavior that you would have not wanted to do anyhow if not for the internal forces controlling you. If you were "better", you would thank them, so your opposition to them is a sign of just how damaged you really are. As for this 555 pound 14 year old, ask yourself first if you follow positive or negative liberty. If you are a positive liberty "for the greater good" Obama following national health care loving socialist democrat, then I would expect you to want to save this child from themself because you know best. On the other hand, if you follow negative liberty, as I do, you would think it's not government's duty to get it's nose involved since it's none of your business what someone else does. I don't know these people's situation, if they live in the country, or a crime ridden neighborhood, or if their over eating is genetic, or emotionally induced. I do know that the "Food Industry" spends $30B per year on inducements to get you to eat, and the government spends a couple of million in nutrition education. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...F93AA25751C0A9 649C8B63 A CONVERSATION WITH: MARION NESTLE; An 'Eat More' Message For a Fattened America By MARY DUENWALD Published: February 19, 2002 .. . . . Q. How does the food industry promote overeating? A. Just by promoting eating. By spending $10 billion a year in direct media advertising. That is so much more than is spent on health and nutrition education, you can't even put them in the same stratosphere. The campaign for fruits and vegetables spends about $2 million a year on public education. The food industry spends another $20 billion a year in indirect marketing, which would include things like the McDonald's Mealtime Set and soft-drink makers' putting their logos on school scoreboards. These practices are so acceptable that people think drinking soft drinks all the time is normal. You're being told in a thousand ways, every time you set foot in a restaurant, to eat more. Their job is to sell you food, to sell you drinks, to sell you appetizers and desserts. .. . . I just wanted to share that with those of you who are smug in your condescension. -- "When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist." -Archbishop Helder Camara http://tinyurl.com/o63ruj http://countercurrents.org/roberts020709.htm |
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