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In reply to the discussion: Destroying the Right to Be Left Alone [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)Am I asking to be left alone?
Often, it seems to be liberals who want to butt into my business. If I ride my bicycle without wearing a helmet, they are all over that. They are not about to leave me alone as I take such a foolish risk. I need to be protected from my own bad judgement.
Same thing if I am so stupid as to drive without putting on a seatbelt. Once again, I need to be protected from my child-like inability to take care of my own safety.
Oh, and then FSM forbid that I should dare to drive somewhere and take my dogs with me. Well that might be okay, as long as my dogs are wearing a safety harness, and as long as I am not the kind of insensitive clod who would actually leave dogs inside a car. I know it is hard to believe than anyone would be so barbaric here in the 21st century, but for the sake of argument, suppose they were, what should a decent person do? Obviously they should call the authorities in so such a miscreant can feel the full penalty of law.
Anyway, I could keep snarking on about the safety gestapo, but my point, such as it is, is that in my 51 years of life I have not faced all that much hassle from and thus needed "this core constitutional protection against overzealous government agents".
I have never run across an "overzealous government agent" in my 51 years. What I seem to need protection from, in my own, admittedly limited, experience, is overzealous safety nannies. YMMV