And it's not even such big important things like that. The point of law is to protect people's freedom to live as they please, so long as that freedom doesn't infringe on other people's. That's why you get punished for stealing or physically hurting people or dumping nuclear waste into a lake or firing someone from their job just because they don't look like you.
Drinking laws may be relatively benign compared to other things, but that doesn't make them any less repressive. Why do they exist? Because governments have hard-ons for regulating every last thing people do just so they look like they're doing something. They spread fear to make people fall in line with every last dumb decree. Hell, if I'm considered mature enough to have a say in the government if I were so inclined, then I can't I get a beer, too?
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Date: 2007-10-16 03:04 pm (UTC)Drinking laws may be relatively benign compared to other things, but that doesn't make them any less repressive. Why do they exist? Because governments have hard-ons for regulating every last thing people do just so they look like they're doing something. They spread fear to make people fall in line with every last dumb decree. Hell, if I'm considered mature enough to have a say in the government if I were so inclined, then I can't I get a beer, too?