How far do we go?

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug, how do you go with libertarianism?  Should speed limits be enforced?

The drug wars represent the ugly side of social policy.  Small towns of course
can be very repressive, while the anonymity of large towns can be liberating.

I think that the questions that we are raising here are very important.  All
of us and think of examples of reprehensible social behavior that we would
like to eliminate.

I would rather affect smoking by eliminating privileges of the corporations
that sell the cigarettes, such as eliminating the tax deductibility of
advertising -- I would do it for all advertising, but that's me.

I think that Doug's perspective is important, but I see the marketing of
cigarettes to children as antisocial behavior.  I do not know how to formulate
a consistent policy to create the sort of society that I would like to see.

Doug Henwood wrote:

> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> >Doug, have you ever met a teenager that thought about future consequnces?
> >I did not think that way, nor did anyone that I knew.
>
> So social policy should be designed in what certain enlightened
> adults believe to be the better interest of teenagers?
>
> Doug

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

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