Reply #17: Tell me what amount of legislation you consider appropriate?

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I think we are very, very far from having gone too far in the direction of regulation. Are you kidding me? The Bush years have all been about dismantling many of the environmental, health and safety regulations that have been set up by multiple governments before his.

The reason you get a label, is because you are arguing about stuff that is so far from the reality in this country. We have food safety issues, issues with safety due to most of our imports from china, we have had multiple stories of scientific import suppressed by the Bush admin. At a time like this worrying about too much regulation is so patently absurd. It is entirely divorced from our current deregulated nightmare of a society. But you can't suggest any form of regulation/good govt without at least 30% of this country getting up in arms about "muh freedumbs being taken away."

The problem with a lot of the stuff you guys seem to get up in arms over, is that it seems really divorced from our current reality as a bloated, over-consuming society that is not given the appropriate information on its consumption patterns, their impacts down the road etc.
The constant equating of an informed society making decisions based on the best information out there with some sort of "far-lefty, eco fascistic" society is what makes it so laughable.

And there is an enormous difference between regulation based on scientific studies for instance and wanting abortion/gay marriage banned because Jeebus said so. Some of these arguments comparing government interference from the left and right seem to want to blur that real line, which I find disingenuous at worst, naive at best.