Reply #76: Are you, then, against universal health insurance? [View All]

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How about taxes on cigarettes and alcohol? Or about property and income taxes? Prohibition of recreational drugs and prostitution, and internet gambling?

There are programs all across the land and all are some form or another of social engineering. We all have our favorites, likes and dislikes.

For example, I think that it is up to the owners of restaurants and bars to decide whether they allow smoking, and then it is up to us whether we want to go there. And many DUers did not like that idea, either.

For many years young men knew that they had to register to the Selective Services and they could be drafted - even in time of peace. It is just a matter of getting used to it. It is also a question of - as JFK asked - whether we go through life expecting that our country does things for us, or whether we realize that membership in any society involves both privileges and obligations.

Sadly, too many on DU, apparently, are as self centered, as "me first" as what one expects to find at freeperville.