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WangoTango

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On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:54:22 -0400, WangoTango
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And stupid should hurt......

No. Stupid people should be reasonably protected against their
limitations, as we protect children and old people against theirs.
So, just how stupid does one have to be to fall under your protection,
how do we determine it, and where do we put them so they don't pose a
danger to themselves and the 'normal' people?

When some people do wide-spread harm to others, civil protections are
reasonable, regardless of how smart anybody is. Lots of smart people
have had their lives ruined by crack and meth and heroin, and by
gambling. One reason laws exist is to protect people from harm.

We are NOT talking about "wide-spread harm to others", we are talking
about what a PERSON does with his or her own money.
If you want to try and trumpet the successes of the "War on Drugs" you
have your work cut out for you.

So many people are smug about being smart (which they sometimes even
are), as if they had any control over being born that way. And they
think other people should be punished, Darwinized to death for not
being smart. It's the same as believing that having royal blood makes
one superior, or that the Master Race can exterminate lower forms of
humanity.

As opposed to being smug about being some kind of benevolent protector
of the great uneducated and mentally feeble?

Who do you refer to? Certainly not me. I don't even own a cape.
Got a mirror handy?

You want to control people, and I do not.

I seek to control nobody, not even my kids or my employees.
Politicians and kings do that.

My philosophy is summed up in the bumper sticker

MEAN PEOPLE SUCK

And living under the thumb of busy body social engineers sucks worse.