{"id":8589,"date":"2013-07-31T12:46:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T12:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/31\/soda-jerk-bloomberg\/"},"modified":"2013-07-31T12:46:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T12:46:43","slug":"soda-jerk-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/31\/soda-jerk-bloomberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Soda Jerk Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Bloomberg has been slapped down by the courts once again.   So not all news is bad. Malcolm Pollack in "Sugar Daddy"  gets it exactly right<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The issue here is personal responsibility. Implicit in this ban is the idea that it is the proper role of the State to intervene in the choices of its citizens when the citizens themselves cannot be trusted to choose wisely. But this is nothing more or less than the State assuming the relation of a parent to a child. If it is indeed the case that certain of our citizens are so incapable of adult judgment that they must be treated as children in this regard, then for consistency\u2019s sake they ought to be assumed to be children in other respects as well, and declared wards of the State: incompetent to vote, to enter into contractual obligations, or to assume the other rights and privileges of adulthood. [. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Say 'no' to the food fascists and oppose these nanny-stating nicompoops every chance you get.  The liberty you save may be your own.  You many not care about sugary sodas, but there may be something you do care about, peanuts, say.  "When they came for the soda, I didn't care because I didn't drink the stuff; when they came for the red meat I did nothing, being a vegetarian . . . ." You know how the rest of it should go.<\/span><\/p>\n

Related:  Feel-Good Liberalism, High-Capacity Magazines, and High-Capacity Soft Drink Containers<\/a>  <\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE:  Chad M. points us to Christopher Hitchens' protest against Bloomi in I Fought the Law<\/a>.  The piece begins entertainingly with a couple of Sidney Morgenbesser anecdotes.<\/span> <\/p>\n

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