Thursday, July 19, 2007
Today government runs part of our lives, and is continually reaching for more and so Nanny State therefore cannot be a better name for it. To tell the truth, it would not be preposterous to refer to it as an actual, breathing person. That is the Nanny State claims to do the best for us. Once upon a time, Nanny State was imagined to be only a part-time contractor existing for the purpose of offering security, highways and a foreign policy. In a place named Massachusetts, she is even trying to control which way bathroom doors swing. Nanny State is forbidding restaurants as well as bars and this ratio is increasing day by day from allowing smoking in their establishments, in order to protect non-smokers from second-hand smoke and to discourage smoking in general. In turn, some establishments would find it profitable in order to attract non-smokers by banning smoking in their own restaurants. This all leads to the real big question: Where does Nanny State draw the line? If she is perfectly comfortable regulating what we eat and where we smoke, little can stop her from some of the facts such as controlling how much we work out. Perhaps a limit on driving is in order, or possibly a law regulating a minimum distance between parking lots and stores, so as to encourage walking. The problems with a big, active, controlling Nanny State are uncountable.




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