"Don't you think people are smart enough to run their own lives?"

This is the atomic bomb of conservative and neo conservative thought and the appeal of this rhetorical question is overwhelming, even beyond the confines that those ideologies.  The ultimate argument against any form of government (or any other kind of) regulation, this phrase trips off of the tongue and is intended to end the discussion.

Not with me, anymore.  When someone says that around me, now, I turn my head from side to side, as though taking in the vast panorama of human existence and say "Are you nuts?"

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