ScreamingEagle
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Laws that are limited, and it's perfectly clear when they are, are good laws.That's why it's slippery.
Lame, maybe, but in the end it's true with respect to that issue, others have to take on the cost of unrelated people and their reckless habits.
I don't care if people can responsibly care for themselves after they did something stupid, those people aren't the problem. It's when someone's problem becomes the problem of another that I take issue with. If you're reckless with a gun and you shoot yourself in the leg, I don't care, If you shoot someone else in the leg, my opinion greatly changes.
Your post in a way to an extent is similar to the anti-gay marriage crowd that worries it will lead to people getting married to animals or trees. I don't mean that out of disrespect, but to take it to the extreme of your perspective, why have any laws at all? People should know what's right and what's wrong.
The slippery slope laws are not good laws, especially since we are a nation based on common law.
It's pretty simple and clear.
Reality is not some utopia that can be legislated and that reality includes folks who don't act the way you want them to act.
Many laws do just that, they address those folks who don't act the way the society sees as proper. We may just have to agree to disagree, and I have no problem with that.
It's not about the action, it's about how those actions affect me and others...that's really my whole point. I'm surprised of the disagreement from a Conservative about having to foot the bill for another persons lack of responsibility.
I don't think we need to go to the point of making laws about fast food and yada yada...but to get closer to the op, I think Michelle Obama encouraging people to eat healthier is the right way to go, but unfortunately she gets assailed by some on the right for it. It's a serious issue that needs to be addressed by the whole country before it gets any worse.
why don't they just teach healthy eating habits in health class....?
the whole food issue that Michelle is pushing is based on/supportive of Obamacare.....meaning that if the government is going to pay for your healthcare the government has the right to encourage/regulate your eating habits.....make no mistake Michelle is just as much a marxist as her husband....despite her penchant for ice cream....
a person should pay for his own health care.....whether he's fit or fat......