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Edwynn -> RE: Plastic bag industry wages war against 12 year old (6/21/2012 1:23:22 AM)
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I didn't need the government to tell me to use a seat belt more than ten years after I took it on my own to do so, so what?
Dumbasses who didn't use seat belts raised the cost of insurance for everybody. Insurance companies are still crooks, but the rates rised less steeply as result of the law.
You or I and a few others might take a worthy bag into the grocery store; as it stands, most people do not.
The purpose of proper regulation is so that society does not have to think so much, at every moment, of the environmental impact we impose, for just going to the grocery store, the bank, the gas station, etc.
After all day at work, we're supposed to have environmental concerns at top of the list, at all times? I think that we're too tired for that.
We pay enough taxes, let the government do the proper job, so we don't have to think of all repercussions of every of hundreds of individual actions we take every day and present ourselves with yet more 'personal choice' over yet another hundred minor details of life.
I didn't need the government to tell me to read food labels, but were it not for the government there wouldn't be any food label to read. Most people don't read food labels. But I do, so the government is just catering to some few of us, right? It actually takes only a few times of reading the labels and reading from good sources regarding food production, then I don't bother reading the labels beyond that. But there are always others just recently educating themselves.
What a burden on society we are!
But feel yourself to be in good company with Monsanto, who have taken it upon themselves the task of relieving society of any information whatsoever regarding food production, especially their own significant chemical and biological contribution to it.
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