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The sinister side of the nanny state : Comments

By David Leyonhjelm, published 19/2/2020

Not many of us like being told how to live our lives, especially by those we don’t know and trust. It gets up our nose.

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Our Labor Govts will go down in history as those advocating wilful destruction of common sense !
The Coalition will go down in history as the family wreckers !
All others will go down in history as wasters of of our Taxes !
Posted by individual, Friday, 21 February 2020 7:15:43 AM
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Quite a good article and I liked the reference to the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Posted by Edward Carson, Thursday, 5 March 2020 1:45:25 PM
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David, let's face it, as one of the inner circle of govt, you must admit knowing that the govt is instructed by foreigners.
Very, very wealthy foreigners.
The govt is told what to do and how to vote, like the "Bail-In" laws.
The conniving bastards waited till the house was nearly empty, and while the "One Nation" party members were out of the chamber, (because they were going to vote against it) the bastards rushed through the bill into law.
Now they deserve to be attacked physically to the point of GBH, and left out to die, just like they have done to the Australian public.
What they did by changing sections of the results and recommendations by the head of the royal commission into banking, was another deceitful and dirty tactic, to appease the banks or those behind the banks, the Elite Jews, I call 'the Club'.
C,mon don't try to side step these facts.
I know you can't openly criticise these bastards, risking serious retaliation, but it would be nice to put some of these theories to bed.
Can you give me any ideas as to where to look further into these acts of treason by the govt, as a whole, after all you are all in it together.
You cannot have a secret in parliament, that is a well known fact.
So it is that I ask you to give us a 'heads up', in any way you can.
The Australian public is becoming increasingly frustrated and short tempered, to the point that it won't be long before ministers become REAL targets from an increasingly abused public.
Posted by ALTRAV, Thursday, 5 March 2020 6:33:28 PM
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Perhaps the reason for the expansion of the nanny state can be attributed to other factors beside the Dunning-Kruger syndrome.

One is that politicians who need to be seen to be doing something about an issue legislate laws which have a restrictive effect on our lives, eg, the lockout laws which NSW had until recently.

The career requirements of bureaucrats and people in administrative positions also further the expansion of the nanny state. A public servant or administrator, whether in the public service or private sector or in a university needs to show that he or she has done something while in a particular position and put this into his or her CV to advance to the next step in their career. The easiest thing to do in their jobs is to promulgate a regulation or procedure in the name of safety, health, concern for likely victims or other easily identified form of compassion. They can then write this down in their CV as one of the initiatives which they undertook in their current position. Various initiatives at universities, such as “safe spaces,” and gender equality and diversity to the nth degree have been initiated by the administrations of universities rather than academics. The Dutch have a useful phrase, “carriere zucht,” which means a desire or a drive to do anything, no matter how stupid, silly, meaningless or malevolent, to advance one’s career, which encapsulates this situation in one simple phrase.

Another driver of nanny state thinking is fear of litigation and the insurance associated with it. We often complain, for example, of how unadventurous adventure parks run by local councils have become. However, we only have ourselves to blame when we are only too eager to sue councils for a small mishap such as tripping over an uncleared tree branch, falling off a jungle gym or falling off a swing. Public bodies and large companies are easy targets for litigation because they find it is less costly to pay out than to fight a litigant or because they wish to avoid publicity.
Posted by Smee Again, Saturday, 14 March 2020 4:21:10 PM
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