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Originally Posted by photon
The government isn't forcing chemicals into people, the government is putting something in the water at the request of the people.
Just like the government makes everyone wear seatbelts or limits how much you can drink before driving or puts warnings on cigarettes or a million other ways the government interferes with our lives.. or rather we all interfere with our own and others' lives through the government.
That's the kind of society we live in.
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I brought this idea up in one of my earlier posts, it is called the "tyranny of the majority".
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Originally Posted by John Stuart Mill
The limitation, therefore, of the power of government over individuals, loses none of its importance when the holders of power are regularly accountable to the community, that is, to the strongest party therein. This view of things, recommending itself equally to the intelligence of thinkers and to the inclination of those important classes in European society to whose real or supposed interests democracy is adverse, has had no difficulty in establishing itself; and in political speculations "the tyranny of the majority" is now generally included among the evils against which society requires to be on its guard.
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If you want more concept of this idea, you can follow this link:
http://www.utilitarianism.com/ol/one.html
I hope that it helps you amend the following statement:
"...the government is putting something in the water at the request of the people."
And as I understand, the most recent plebiscite demonstrated that 53% were in favour... A tenuous majority enforcing itself on the remaining 47%. Majority rule is
not the superlative political determinant; especially by a slim margin.