Mac1958
Diamond Member
Pete, I appreciate your response. I've failed in getting straight answers from the OP.Somehow you missed: If my federal government tries to keep dead rats out of my hamburger meat, I've lost freedom AND liberty.
Is that statement correct or is it not?
This is now the third time I've asked you a question, and I have yet to get a straight answer. Last try.
Is that statement correct or is it not?
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I'll take a swipe at that if you don't mind.
It takes away the right of the supplier to put dead rat in your burger. It takes away your right to get a cheap, less than %100 beef burger.
Eating rat meat will not hurt you if it'still cooked properly.
A more significant point to me however, is why the feds need to be in charge of simple QC inspections? Are these not things that can be done at the state level? Furthermore, in spite of federal inspectors running around, things still go wrong and people get sick. It'seems the civil suits that truly keep businesses in line, not the feds.
Here's what I'm trying to get at: I keep hearing about how seemingly any government in our lives whatsoever (and this appears to be the case with this thread) damages our "freedom and liberty". That is a vague concept at best. How does this manifest with you, personally? How damaged to you feel your personal freedoms and liberties by any given government involvement/existence in (or out of) your life?
Because the spirit of this thread is very simplistic and binary, it would appear that any intervention causes unacceptable damage.
My argument is that freedoms and liberties, on a macro level, exist on a continuum, and that the key is finding proper equilibrium, and that binary, absolutist arguments are pointless and counter-productive.
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