Quote Originally Posted by Chicken lady View Post
Or, we could prevent measles outbreaks (and flu outbreaks and chicken pox...) through vaccination! Risk of death or side effects being much much lower with the shot! And we could make people opt OUT of organ donation instead of opting in (most people are lazy) and we could put breathalyzers in cars (for optional use to inform the driver) and then take away people’s drivers licenses the first time they drive drunk! And we could keep tobacco products away from young people to discourage expensive, health damaging addiction, and we could offer high quality prenatal care to every woman in America....

oh the things we could do because even one easily preventable death is too many!
The devil is in the details of what “easily preventable” consists of.

I do not like the way you breezily say what “we” can do to others. “We” can so easily make them do X because “we” think “we” know better than they do what is best for all of us.

if you want to attach a breathalyzer to you car you are free to do that. You are free to stand on a street corner urging people you see to sign their driver’s license to give away organs.

But you want the heavy hand of government to do all of the dirty work for you, dirty work that would be ignored in my city anyway. All the laws, rules, and regulations in the world won’t cause people to drive carefully, stop at stop signs, register their cars,pay their taxes, keep their properties up to the Standards defined by city ordinances, keep their agressive dogs on a leash, etc etc.Not even talking about shooting guns on the regular for fun or business.

I haven’t forgotten your solution to have drug dogs harassing library patrons.I still find that suggestion preposterous and I see it as a jackbooted threat that horrifies even me, Law ‘N Order Iris.