Bruce? Imagine for a moment I am president.
Let’s say that I can prove with reams of unassailable science that if I am allowed to control everything you eat and force you to exercise two hours a day, I can make your life unambiguously better.
You’ll be healthier, happier, more productive, and smell like fresh raspberries. You’ll also live longer and have 70% lower medical expenses which is a vast benefit to society as a whole and will save the medicare system.
Does that give me the right to force you do do it?
When I demand this of you against your will, how will you say no? Will you accept that it’s your “social duty” to flatten the medicare cost curve? Are you OK never eating another french fry or dessert or Krab Kingz dish? Are you OK with jail time for missing your Cross Fit class?
Or might you suddenly want your rights and the liberty of self-determination? And if you are not willing to submit to my grand scale social plan, then by what right do you presume to force others to submit to yours?
It’s an important question, Bruce (and Karen Spivey-Cummings…and the rest of the maskholes).
Perhaps give that some thought before cheerleading for the next mandate you happen to agree with. No power granted to government is ever only used once or by only one faction. Pushing others onto a slippery slope will put you on it with them.