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Old 12-20-06, 04:03 PM   #9
waste gate
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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:
B/C if you let the government give you something without you working for it for yourself they (gov't) can take it away just as easily.

EDIT; let people work for it themselves instead of being slaves to the state.
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