Maybe it's just what I listen to, but when I hear self-proclaimed pundits and libertarians decry the loss of personal freedoms and nanny culture, I agree with them, even though that's perhaps the one area we can agree.
They bring up the lack of harm from second-hand smoke, I'll buy that and agree to it. I hate the smell of smoke, it turns my stomach, but that doesn't give me the right to tell you not to smoke. Along the whole line of these issues of protecting people from themselves, I think we've gone too far.
But I can't help but argue with libertarians on corporate controls and on economic issues. I believe in environmentalism and limiting the freedom of corporations, or at least corporate hand-outs and the lack of accountability it seems there is for corporations as a whole. But I know that those are separate beliefs. I know some environmentalists complain about paper deforesting the world. Let me tell you something, that's bullshit. Most of the wood actually used in paper is farmed, because wild growth wood is too full of imperfections to be properly useable to a paper-mill.
I want there to be some limitations to the way that corporations are allowed to act, separating them from the lawmaking process, actually letting what's good for this country come before what's good for Disney.
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