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Old 12-20-06, 03:06 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by waste gate
If you smoke, drink, eat fatty foods, don't exercise, you are costing the government money, and therefore, subject to government sanction.
Why not?

I guess I'll never understand the other side of it, myself. As a self-professed socialist and anti-libertarian, I'm personally all in favour of a government that sanctions sustainability. Being a rational socialist, I can also see where the limits of these things should be.
Before you poke your finger at [reasonable degrees of] socialism, find me a better way to deal with the mess that present-day consumer societies have dug us into :hmm:
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