Comments on: “Three cheers for autonomy”

By: Food and farm roundup - Overlawyered

Food and farm roundup - Overlawyered — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:30:14 +0000

[…] Powell ties Bloomberg’s soda ban in with John Stuart Mill and the dreadful-sounding new book Against Autonomy [Libertarianism.org] Too bad editors of the New York Daily News, which lives by newsstand choice, […]

By: Jack Olson

Jack Olson — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:00:05 +0000

Doesn’t Sarah Conly’s claim of a right to arrest and jail people who drink sodas too large to meet her approval give them an equal right to prevent her from doing anything which doesn’t meet their approval? It does, unless she claims that she has a right to decide their diet for them but they have no right to decide her diet for her. I suspect it is more obvious to her that her superior wisdom gives her that right than it is to them.

By: William Nuesslein

William Nuesslein — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:22:52 +0000

Add to D: as it was in the early 1930’s.

By: D

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:18:31 +0000

Fascism (stringent socioeconomic control by a strong central government) is all the rage these days.

By: rxc

rxc — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:51:15 +0000

Hmmm… “true preferences” – where have I heard something like this before? Oh, I know – “false consciousness” – “the Marxist thesis that material and institutional processes in capitalist society are misleading to the proletariat, and to other classes. ”

Progressives are really good a recycling philosophies that make them feel better about themselves.

By: Alan K. Henderson

Alan K. Henderson — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:40:03 +0000

I take it this gal who writes approvingly of “Coercive Paternalism” does not bill herself as a feminist. That would be the height of insanity.