All of you who criticized Bloomberg over the Soda ban ... consider this

[beevul]

114. Freedom means...

Freedom means not having people like yourself or mayor 1 percent, defining for everyone else, what "vice" means.

"freedom and liberty" means living ones own life and making ones own choices as they see fit, with nothing more than simple and reasonable rules that limit ones freedom of choice in only ways that are necessary, and it also means not having people like yourself or mayor 1 percent decide what the definition of "necessary" is.

What you don't seem to get about people in general - and this may be more of an American thing though I can't say for sure - is that people have a general tendency, when confronted by someone looking to force his or her will upon another individual or a group or even a populace of others, to say "fuck you, it isn't your place to do that" - with little thought to whether that person is right or wrong outside the issue of being an authoritarian asshole.

To a great many people, authoritarian assholes are a much larger problem than obesity or any other "vice" you can name.

I'm probably just wasting my time though, since you thought "stop and frisk" was just fine and dandy. "Meek mayor mike" ("I've got my own army&quot knows best, right?

Which would you choose:

A life where authoritarians told you how to live

or

A life where you were free from all but the most objectively necessary interference, and free to make choices, even bad ones.