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Quote by: lsbskins1  So, if the majority of the consuming populace believes that a business should not be allowed to sell toys that are covered in lead paint, why must they wait for unnecessary damages to health and well being to know which toys not to buy, when they can pass a law and make the market respond ahead of the damage? |
Because in American we have this held suspicion that if you give the government an inch they will take a mile. We also have this desire to oppose authority and common sense, we like to smoke even though we know its harmful, perhaps just because for some its all they can do to snub authority.
We know smoking causes health problems but people will argue so does everything else. It all boils down to people fight such government control because everyone seems to idealize with an anarchist society where you are free to choose for yourself. Yet at the same time we demand a functional legal, health, and police systems.
Ironic kind of. People demand government get the hell out off people's lives but then forget its the government that generates their power, water, and maintains society.
I feel like were in the Matrix. We hate the machines (government) but we need the machines (government) to survive and maintain our standard of living.