Warning that "a free man is responsible for his choices [while] a servant has neither choices nor responsibility,"
John Hayward challenges Mayor Bloomberg's argument for a 16-oz soda ban and the larger risk it poses to Americans.
In the United States, liberals have spent generations selling the
illusion of “independence” without responsibility – the promise of
government benefits provided at no great cost to individual liberty.
This illusion shattered forever when the American Left finally achieved
its dream of government-controlled health care. The true cost of
dependency could no longer be concealed. The Catholic Church is no
longer free to follow its religious conscience. Contrary to President
Obama’s assurances, you don’t get to keep your old plan if you liked it.
The War on Obesity is still fairly young, as political crusades go,
but it has spotlighted the loss of liberty that inevitably accompanies
dependence...
And if we continue on Nanny Bloomberg's foolish course?
...there will eventually be no purpose in complaining about it, because
you’ll never get your lost choices back. You will be expected to grow
comfortable with a more limited range of motion, within the perpetually
shrinking cage your betters have designed for you. You will become
steadily less responsible for your life, and the lives of your children,
which is very soothing. You’ll also be less free, by definition, as
your “unacceptable” choices are taken away...
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