2009-05-25

At What Point Do Laws Erase Freedoms?

You gotta love it. Just...just...gotta...love it. Previously on The Commentator I asserted the government (hello Mr. Charest) are a pack of hypocrites - as corrosive as cigarettes.

So, now they want to ban smoking in cars where children are present. Hey, good stuff. I applaud our collective concerns. Smoking is a foul vice. It's an act that should take place away from children.

BUT, given all the laws now put in place amount to trampling on civil liberties, again I ask, why aren't cigarettes banned outright?

It's a simple question really.

Like I said before, because they're addicted to the cash they get from tobacco companies.

What's next? Will the government come into your home to protect you?
Posted by T.C.

6 comments:

  1. potsoc5/25/2009

    Any law is per se a limit to individual choices and freedoms. The line is drawn at common acceptance of standards. Fortunately we have the Supreme Court as an arbiter rather than individual or political whimsy.

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  2. Nick5/26/2009

    Fortunately we have the Supreme Court as an arbiter rather than individual or political whimsy.Uh, what? Aren't the judges on any court also merely human and fallible individuals? What makes them so special that they're immune from arbitrariness and whim? This is the fallacy in all statist arguments.

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  3. potsoc5/26/2009

    There are nine judges on the Canadian Supreme Court bench. Chances are they can't all be wrong when unanimous and probably right on majority verdicts. Since they come from all provinces, Ontario and Quebec each have three, and they sit for a long time, packing the Court is not easy. Nowadays, I have more trust in our Supreme Court than in our various Parliaments.

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  4. T.C.5/26/2009

    I think SE is in the U.S.

    Regardless.

    Paul, if what's going on in the lower courts (e.g. intervening in family affairs) permeates to the top we're in trouble!

    Egads.

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  5. potsoc5/26/2009

    I've a feeling had the affair I believe you are hinting at had gone all the way to the Suorme Court, the Lower Courts would have been reversed.

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  6. T.C.5/26/2009

    The one about the silly judge who reversed a father's punishment for his 12 year-old daughter?

    I hope you're right. Though I'm not sure anymore.

    Activist judges are a scourge.

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