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Entry: Sometimes a Hamburger Is Just a Hamburger Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/sometimes_a_hamburger_is_just_a_hamburger#3011 Post contents: Bill, I would like to qualify your question "should we let people choose, even if they choose badly" with another question "Am I going to be stuck with the consequences when it goes wrong?" Too many people mistake the freedom to make wrong decisions with the freedom to let other people clean up after them. If by their decisions, I am to be negatively affected, and I see no intention of them to avoid bringing bad effects to me, then self-defense dictates that I should try to prevent them from all legal means. I mean, if people want to eat at McDonald's fine, but if that means that my favorite cafe has to close, I may have something to say about that. Because *I* am now the one deprived of choice. Sent at: 2008 12 01