So enforcement of a community standard of a ban on toys in “Happy Meals”?
Do you support it?
How about laws enforcing the community standard against circumcision?
Do you support it?
On what grounds to you oppose the Nanny State on toys and foreskins, but support it on video games?
Do you have a standard upon which such things are to be judged?
I do. I think games should be rated for content like movies(and they are) and I think responsible stores should refuse to sell adult rated games to minors - as they refuse entry to R rated movies to unaccompanied minors. That is a community standard that is entirely without a need for any law to enforce.
Stores that sell adult rated games to minors should be boycotted, protested against, etc.
A law is unnecessary where people have moral standards - where moral standards are absent - the law will be insufficient.
I am amazed that you guys keep pushing the left’s agenda, and never stop to think about what destroyed this country in the first place. How libertarianism was the crushing force that the left used to break up our communities.
How do you think the left overcame the natural, and enduring social conservatism of America, is it all about individual freedom from the left, of course not, just as it never was entirely true from the traditional America.
What changed was the balance between individual rights and community survival. America always had a conservative version of that balance, now there is a leftwing/libertarian version of the balance since the 50s/60s.
There is a reason that conservatives recognize libertarianism as the ramming tool of the left, first it goes for the soft under belly of conservatism and using activist courts, dismantles it’s moral foundation, then in the resulting vacuum, the left steps in and dominates the common space.
We never get the end to welfare and the economic theories, but we do get the end of necessary traditions and bonding community religious rituals, we do get the prostitution, the dope, the open homosexuality, and then while the streets burn, the left takes over the common space, and the good and decent lose it.
Restrain the courts and the straights will come back into power and control over “community standards”, and the left will recede back into the dark corners of life.
Interestingly, that will also result in smaller government, like it used to be, that is another contradiction of libertarian gains of the last 60 years, it resulted in more government, which was predictable to anyone with any sense.
I really like the way you said that.