BA WARE:I don't think I am using an erroneous argument but a consistent one. Some time ago Mark Croucher was making categorical economic statements about smoker's contribution to the Treasury. When I ask for his source and added a few more to the list, he disappeared without trace.
The point I am making, concerns individual choice and its impact on others. Freedom under the law allows adjustments and modifications to peoples behaviour upon others.
This is why the Libertarian's arguments are largely invalid. They are centred on self, but fail to address the impact on others.
I don't think that attempts to modify aspects of a problem, which impinge on others is necessarliy wrong. It is certainly not easy, but a worthy endeavour. These attempts cannot be dismissed as 'nanny state' interference, or motivated by fascists as some appear to think. Anyway, we have disagreed in the past, but I am sure that there is much on which we do agreee.
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