(March 26, 2015 at 6:45 pm)Aractus Wrote:(March 26, 2015 at 5:39 pm)Cato Wrote: After what I have already shared, do you honestly think I would find this argument compelling? Seat belt laws for adults should be repealed; the same for states with motorcycle helmet laws. You aren't advocating for a free society, you are pushing a form of paternalism.(emphasis added).
Is there a point you're trying to make? Or are you agreeing with me?
Certainly you're not so daft as to drag this conversation down to the level of debating the inability of children to make decisions or the state's compelling interest to protect them from stupid parents are you?
You must realize that you're proving my observation of your sympathies for paternalism. Paternalism gets its name from the fact that in such systems states deprive its citizens of freedoms and responsibilities like a parent does a child.
