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Exactly.
If the people of New York City don't like it, they're going to have to do something about it themselves. Namely, quit electing liberals like Bloomberg, and put in office people who believe that government's functions should be limited to things ordinary private citizens CAN'T do.
Until the people of New York City do that, they're going to get exactly the government they deserve - the government they voted for.
I think most people are okay with kids being protected by a flu shot when their parents won't do the job. Same with mandatory seat belts for minors. I'm sure a large majority support such measures.
The 16 oz. cup limitation (or whatever it was), on the other hand, is just stupid.
Unfortunately, you can't pick and choose which big-government laws you can obey and which ones you don't have to. Once you elect big-government politicians, you have to accept and obey ALL of them... plus all the ones they will impose on you in the future. And history shows that once the govt is given such broad power, they will ALWAYS use it, and expand it, and regulate and restrict you more and more, without end.
That's why some people believe it's better to keep the power to make all those laws, OUT of the hands of the politicians. And put up with the responsibility of doing the important things themselves, and talking their friends and neighbors into doing them too.
Neither of these solutions is perfect. But some people believe the latter solution is the better one.
Those people are called "conservatives".
They are called "idiots" and cause their children to suffer the penalty of their stupidity.
You are assuming no politicians take the moderate road of leaving adults to decide for themselves but making seat belts and flu shots for children mandatory.
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