To: sarcasm
OK, let me be the first to say that I think splitting ones' tongue is stupid - very stupid. But does the government - at any level - really have to try to outlaw stupidity?
2 posted on
05/01/2003 3:22:03 AM PDT by
meyer
To: meyer
When stupidity is outlawed, only democrats will rule.
5 posted on
05/01/2003 3:26:07 AM PDT by
tet68
(Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
To: meyer
The government has the right to decide who can perform the procedure because the government may have to pay to clean it up.
24 posted on
05/01/2003 4:31:08 AM PDT by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: meyer
I do not want to ever split my tongue. If my kid did it, I would do anything I can to stop it. However, I find a scary tend of the government more and more controlling everything about our lives. Of cameras following us in many places. Of private information about us kept in files.
Freedom means also the freedom to do stupid things, the freedom to fail, the freedom to chose our associates on any basis of any criteria, the freedom to dislike others.
30 posted on
05/01/2003 5:26:07 AM PDT by
Dante3
(.)
To: meyer
Yes, the government SHOULD outlaw stupidity. That would make Teddy Kennedy Public Enemy #1.
To: meyer
But does the government - at any level - really have to try to outlaw stupidityIt depends.
It is illegal to become hooked on crack, but legal to get hooked on cigarettes, booze or prescription narcotics.
It is illegal in most places to attempt or commit suicide.
But it is perfectly legal to try to trim one's own hair with a rotary lawmower. Maybe we need a new law...
51 posted on
05/01/2003 6:11:03 AM PDT by
Eagle Eye
(There ought to be a law against excessive legislation.)
To: meyer
But does the government - at any level - really have to try to outlaw stupidityIt depends.
It is illegal to become hooked on crack, but legal to get hooked on cigarettes, booze or prescription narcotics.
It is illegal in most places to attempt or commit suicide.
But it is perfectly legal to try to trim one's own hair with a rotary lawmower. Maybe we need a new law...
52 posted on
05/01/2003 6:11:11 AM PDT by
Eagle Eye
(There ought to be a law against excessive legislation.)
To: meyer
OK, let me be the first to say that I think splitting ones' tongue is stupid - very stupid. But does the government - at any level - really have to try to outlaw stupidity? The bill is not about tongue-splitting, it's about regulating tongue-splitters.
It's a public health issue. The government can and should regulate those in the tongue-splitting business, in the same way they can and should regulate tattoo parlors (which are great places to catch things like Hepatitis C).
66 posted on
05/01/2003 8:20:11 AM PDT by
r9etb
To: meyer
I agree.
They should worry more about arresting and deporting illegal aliens than about tongue splitting.
84 posted on
06/27/2006 6:32:26 PM PDT by
Dante3
To: meyer
OK, let me be the first to say that I think splitting ones' tongue is stupid - very stupid. But does the government - at any level - really have to try to outlaw stupidity? Can you say, "Click it or Ticket"? The painful, bumpy ride down that slippery slope has already begun.
90 posted on
06/28/2006 1:09:11 PM PDT by
TChris
("Wake up, America. This is serious." - Ben Stein)
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