Why is government enforcement of anything required, though? If the market is already on its way there's nothing to enforce.
because i think and i am hoping i am wrong, there will be always people like you who want to hurt other people just for fun and because you enjoy kicking against the powers that be. Instead of going with the flow, the situation that 99.99% of people who do not have any problem with it, you remain difficult for no reason other then that being difficult gives you pleasure. And you are not alone.
Another reason is that once the people are steered in the right direction which they themselves have seen is the better way because of the increase in a happy life, because of the reduction of costs which relates to more savings for a good old retirement day, for sooner repaying of that loan, it is to make sure that it stays that way. And not that some loony goon starts to think that it is hip and trendy to introduce cars that have the efficiency of a T-ford model. People similar like glue sniffers.
I come up with this example all the time because i like that T-ford car very much. But i will never drive it daily when given the chance. But if i would be in the position i would drive it around at meetings. I like gas guzzlers myself. I would love to drive in a M1 Abrahams tank. But even if i was rich enough to do it, i wouldn't do it daily. Maybe once a year on a special occasion for a few hours, probably as a show and explain to youngsters.
This isn't a good example to demonstrate what I presume you're advocating. In this scenario, two people have personal choices to make. The smoker has to choose whether or not to smoke and the person with asthma has to choose whether or not to move away from the smoker. In neither case is a law needed.
The law is needed if one person decides that the other person has no "god given" rights on a happy life. And that is what i mentioned here as example. Now a lady with asthma has no business being in a smokey bar and as such has nothing to complain if she enters that bar anyway. TO give you an example: I myself have as a nonsmoker the view that people should be able to smoke in a bar if the bar owner allows it. If the bar owner does not allow it then people are not allowed to smoke. That way people who do not want to smell after smoke, are not enforced on it. I do know that second hand smoking is dangerous but i think it is more important to stop building coal burning electric generating facilities who dump millions of tons of chemicals and lethal ash into the atmosphere. Smoking is unhealthy but is kind of unimportant if you live near a chemical plant that dumps its toxic fumes without any form of filtering. Or to get rid of the smog in a city is more important then that a 50.000 people smoke on a population of 700.000. I think you get my drift.
If people didn't hurt each other, there would be no reason for a justice system, a law what is allowed and what is not. Why is it that you people always say that people like me believe in an utopia, while it is yourself who lives in a dream world utopia. We do not make laws for fun. We make them because some people do not respect other people in various ways. Laws are not there to be broken. laws are there to prevent people from going wrong. If i was an alien above in the sky, i would just admit that a large part of humanity is not able to take care of themselves. And if you look at the global news, it is true.
Who decides what the difference is, whether there is a difference at all, and what needs and luxuries will be addressed and allowed/disallowed? Your answer is probably the collective will of the majority, as expressed via government. My answer is that each of us decides these things, but only for ourselves.
Is it really that hard to understand ? Do you prefer a bed or a plasma tv to sleep on ? Do you want food on your table or do you want an xbox to eat ?
Things you need to be able to live as a bare minimum. Ahd if you want to hang you house for example full of 20 1kW plasma tv's then that is fine, but you are going to be charged for it. You will be paying that electric bill and better not be complaining about a conspiracy of the electrical company working together with the government to steal your "god given right" of having 20 tv's in your house and moaning that the bill is too high. You will pay the same price for electricity as everybody else does.
