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True meaning of the Nanny State : Comments

By David Leyonhjelm, published 28/9/2015

At its core, nanny-statism involves enacting laws and enforcing policies that interfere with or manage personal choices, when the only consideration is the individual's own good.

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Dear Percival,

Overall, obese people are generally of a calmer, more peaceful and content disposition.

Obese people are also less likely to become thieves: they are simply too heavy to sneak through windows or to run away fast. Sex crimes are also usually beyond their reach and so is their ability to become prime-ministers.

You say that obesity is likely to pass to their children, but then they benefit society by being less likely to infest it with children, or at least with as many children.

Currently in Australia, nearly everyone (with the exception of those who emigrate to retire elsewhere or experience a sudden death) produces a burden on society during the last years of their life. An individual that cannot regulate their health is less of a burden on society because they tend to die sooner.

The ones that should pay for any medical interventions are either the obese themselves; their insurance companies; their families; charities; or such society(s) which they willingly joined by some mutual agreement that included the provisions of such interventions, that too only if they consented to be intervened with in the first place. In any case, it should not be you and me who are forced to pay for their interventions unless we too voluntarily agreed to join those same society(s).

Chronologically, first a number of people grouped up to form a "society", then they forcibly included all the people around them in their society, whether they liked it or not. Now they shed crocodile-tears claiming that those people which they forcibly included are a burden to the society they created: all they need to relieve themselves of that "burden", is simply to allow the others to go and live their own life!
Posted by Yuyutsu, Thursday, 1 October 2015 1:03:33 AM
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