{"id":49519,"date":"2014-12-04T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49519"},"modified":"2014-11-30T17:41:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T23:41:08","slug":"for-your-own-good-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49519","title":{"rendered":"For Your Own Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no limit to the power over others is contained in the phrase \u201cfor your own good.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Gallons per flush and curly light bulbs, school lunches and eliminating kickball, unlimited immigration and minimum wage increases, bank bailouts and crop subsidies, gun bans, up-armored police and down-graded health insurance plans.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the reason we had to destroy the village to save it: it was for their own good.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s going to become one of my new litmus tests.  When someone proposes society require people to do something the people won\u2019t voluntarily do for themselves, I\u2019m going to ask why.  If the answer is \u201cit\u2019s for their own good,\u201d then regardless of the merits of the proposal, I\u2019m against it.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> A significant part of our society mixes up &#8220;government&#8221; and &#8220;parents&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: There is no limit to the power over others is contained in the phrase \u201cfor your own good.\u201d Gallons per flush and curly light bulbs, school lunches and eliminating kickball, unlimited immigration and minimum wage increases, bank bailouts and crop subsidies, gun bans, up-armored police and down-graded health insurance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49520,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49519\/revisions\/49520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}