Surprise surprise; big government has weedled us (or is at least successfully trying) out of yet another one of our everyday freedoms.
The Los Angeles city council recently announced a proposal to ban fast food from a certain south L.A. district, in the hopes of reducing the growing problem of obesity in that particular area.
Sounds decent, right? After all, obesity is a silent killer, right? Obesity can cause many a life-threatening condition, right? Of COURSE obesity is BAD.....and trying to prevent it is a noble cause....the PROBLEM here is the fact that the government is taking this into their own hands and essentially taking the responsibility and the choice away from the individual. "From cradle to grave"...this notion savors strongely of socialism. It's ridiculous that in the name of the higher or common good, the government has the right to tell us where we can and can't eat. Shouldn't a person be able to choose whether or not they want to clog their arteries with an order of McDonalds a day? Honestly, I personally think that habit is disgusting, but it is not up to me, or anyone else, to make someone give it up simply because the government has deemed it "bad for you." The same idea goes with smoking in public. I agree 100% that smoking is gross, disgusting, and terrible for your health. However, it's been proven that second-hand smoke can't cause cancer itself, so why is it that smokers can't exercise the freedom to blacken their lungs?
Now by battling this point, there might be the individual or two that would say "Well, if we should have the freedom to do what we want with our bodies, why is abortion so wrong?" It's WRONG because you don't let the other individual have a choice! Does that baby (fetus...whatever you want to call it...) get to enter the world and have a go at it? No, because another individual took that opportunity away from them. My point is (going back to my original subject)....if an individual wants to ruin their health by eating everyday at McDonalds, so what? That's their choice. They are harming no one but themselves, and it is their responsibility to make changes ON THEIR OWN if they want to improve their health. We don't need the government to do that for us.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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