On Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 12:53:46 PM UTC-4, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrot e:
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nny" government? Clearly attempting to "herd" the flock.
ing and as a result smoking and deaths from smoking have declined. Same wi th the use of seat belts and traffic deaths except we didn't just "encourag e" people to wear seat belts, we REQUIRE it by law.
time and will always be a nanny government. That is the government most pe ople want.
s. We elect people to do it for us. But no, I don't believe people are ve ry good at making decisions, especially about politics, but that's not the issue in this case. Providing incentives to encourage buyers of EVs is abo ut getting EVs over the hump and into wide spread use. Like throwing the r ubber band airplane to launch it.
good for us all. I can see where others would disagree, but that doesn't mean it is wrong to do so.
Really, we do things as a group? No we don't, that's silly. (That's kinda scary actually.) We do things individually (if and where the nannies let us).
- shetoric.
It was a simple statement of historical fact, summarizing the rationale for our form of government from the thinking of some of the most brilliant men who ever lived.
The fundamental premise for creating America was that an educated, virtuous free people could govern itself and be better off than under your kind of nanny state run by a parliament or a king. Central control is inflexible and inferior in almost every way.
That used to be common knowledge, taught in basic civics. But it won't make much sense if you haven't ever learned about our theory of government. You might have to be willing to read the old guys to understand it.
You express a basic contempt for that original premise. You plainly believe people are sheep who need herding by their intellectual and moral betters. But I don't believe people are sheep, nor do I believe the shepherds are intellectually or morally better. The opposite, actually, is pretty obvious.
to the real issue being discussed. I think that has happened here.
If you don't understand a principle then yes, of course you won't understand the universality of its application, not even when I said in plain words that people don't need incentives to buy EVs. When EVs make sense, people will buy them.
Cheers, James Arthur