{"id":12179,"date":"2018-08-09T06:35:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=12179"},"modified":"2018-07-21T10:53:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T17:53:48","slug":"the-limits-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=12179","title":{"rendered":"The Limits of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>What is the limit on the government\u2019s power to make you do things for your own good?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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I know that we have to cooperate to make world work for everyone. Traffic laws and ending pollution are evidence of that. But laws that restrict the choice of soda size, ban plastic bags or straws wouldn’t be necessary if people didn’t desire them for their own reasons.<\/p>\n

Politics is the place where we fight this out and what works for one group at one time may not work for another group at a different time. I had a thing for the Nanny State<\/a> a few years ago. Now I’m more sanguine. The group instinct is real because we have group needs but as the opening question said “What is the limit?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the limit on the government\u2019s power to make you do things for your own good?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64,11,5],"tags":[316,311],"class_list":["post-12179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanny-state","category-politics","category-simon-says","tag-nanny-state","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-3ar","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12181,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12179\/revisions\/12181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}