Wednesday 17 October 2007

Swords Have Two Edges

If you are not responsible for your actions, then you will not be given responsibility.

C. S. Lewis on the logic of the totalitarian

A new study says that obese people are not responsible for their condition and the British government "pledged to draw up a strategy to address the issue."

That's about as ominous a promise as "we're here to help." Translated this means that the overweight will be "helped" the same way smokers were by being hounded from pillar to post until they are beaten into submission.

If I were a gay rights activist I would be very worried at this edict. If a supposedly involuntary, yet unhealthy "lifestyle" can be persecuted out of existence because it has been declared a thoughtcrime by the Party is momentarily unpopular, then homosexuals, and the rest of us, might be enjoying but a brief Indian summer before a very hard winter.

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