Hooray for libertarian sentiment, I guess?

[dour]

Associated Press feeds us an opinion piece (not even thinly veiled) regarding the recent trend in banning things; trans fats, cellphones while driving, and headphones in crosswalks are given as examples. In the closing paragraph, a capital-L Libertarian is not-quite-quoted as seeing the validity of a ban one-handed driving, which is hazardous to

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[tyrc]

Though its power has been weakened by the increased availability of information over the internet, the imbalance of knowledge is one of those things which is exploited and abused by misleading statements, and flat out lying, especially in the Food industry, seemingly

[dour]

The secondhand smoke thing is frankly bullshit; it's one of those issues of playing sly with the numbers. Three in a million is THREE TIMES one in a million, but they're both statistically insignificant. That's why I didn't stick smoking in with guns and cars.

I'm fine with local ordinances because, really, at that level it's more a community action than a government one. No screaming in the library, y'know? (Except the punk/metal library, they don't mind it there.) There's no reason to fabricate pseudoscientific excuses for these things; just keep them where they belong (i.e., where they're wanted by the vast majority of the affected populace).