[discostu]

Well you’re part way there,. you understand the WOD has failed.

Now for the other half, where you’re completely backwards. A SANE society let’s people take their own risks.

Make all the bad puns you want but in the end it boils down to are we a free society of not? Free societies allow people to take risks, even unreasonable risks. Free societies allow stupid behavior. It allows people to eat unhealthy food, read in dim light, not dress properly for the weather, drink and smoke dope. Once you decide the government gets to start dictating which “bad” behavior is and isn’t acceptable you open the door for all kinds of stupid tyranny like we’re getting now, with socialized medicine and governments outlawing fatty foods all for “our own good” because they “know best”. Screw them, it’s not their life, it’s not their call. If I want to eat transfats (which I do) it’s my business, not theirs, not yours. If I want to smoke dope (which I haven’t in decades) it’s my business, not theirs, not yours.

As long as people are keeping the risk to themselves it’s really nobody’s damn business. At least in a free society.

[Retired Greyhound]

As long as people are keeping the risk to themselves it’s really nobody’s damn business. At least in a free society.

I agree, but we haven't lived in a free society in a long time, my FRiend.

There are big government types on the left and the right.

[dfwgator]

As long as people are keeping the risk to themselves it’s really nobody’s damn business

When you get ObamaCare, it will become EVERYBODY'S business......that's one reason Obama/RomneyCare must be stopped.

[ejonesie22]

As long as people are keeping the risk to themselves it’s really nobody’s damn business. At least in a free society.

And that's the problem right there...

The risk is not always self contained...