“I’d rather the government not criminalize or control anything it’s none of their damn business. If your actions are not hurting others or denying others their rights then it is no business of government.”
I could go along with your sentiments if the users faced the consequences on their own or through volunteer actions of others.
Unfortunately in the society we live you and I end up footing the bill and the societal costs of people deciding to ruin their health and their lives.
The worst thing you can have is a society with freedom and no responsibility - which everyday we’re getting more of.
I remember Ron Paul’s farewell speech to congress where he stated something to the effect that the thing that disappointed him most about his stint in Washington that “freedom was such a tough sell”.
Well Ron got it wrong - what he was trying to sell was freedom WITH responsibility. It was the responsibility part that was the hard sell.
The RATS prove it time after time that freedom WITHOUT responsibility is an easy sell. Pot smoking is only the latest. Freedom to marry who or what you like, freedom to have kids out of wedlock and have the government pay for it, freedom to not work, freedom to vandalize stores, etc etc etc.
Damn! Free Republic is full of control freaks. Your extreme law and order type is not all that different from a Marxist. It is just their motivation that is different. That and the Marxist is a much better liar and usually only cares about power while the control freak wants power to “save others.”
So you must be on board with fedgov efforts to curb obesity by regulating what we eat. Right?