"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Trouble with Libertarian Paternalism
"There are many arguments against government paternalism: apart from limiting individual choice (for example, the choice to remain uninsured in the current healthcare debate in the United States) and preventing individuals from learning, history suggests time and again that the conventional wisdom prevalent in society is wrong. And, since governments typically try to enforce the conventional wisdom, the consequences could be disastrous, because they are magnified by the state's coordinating - and coercive - power."
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