Revealed Preferences (people are liars)

[pvn]

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Are you serious man? Allow me to quote you, from this very thread:

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But of course magical angelic omnipresent, omniscient, omnibenevolent bureaucrats and politicians suffer none of these failings.

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Gimmicky, sarcastic quick about politicians. Yes, we have actually seen this post already in 95% of AC related thread, but please by all means, post it again...

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It's not gimmicky. It's dead serious. And it's never answered.

If "people" are too stupid to be left to make their own decisions, how is taking one of these "stupid" people and letting him make the decisions for other people supposed to help anything?

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Does this really not conflict with anything you, or perhaps pvn, has posted in the past? Because I'm fairly sure that in the trans fat thread, the crux of the argument against laws such as "No trans fat" is that I can't possibly know that someone would prefer not to eat trans fat. If I got the mistaken impression, please feel free to correct me, as it seems relevant to this thread.

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It DOESN'T MATTER to me if someone would prefer to eat it or not. If someone ASKS you to intervene on his behalf and prevent him from eating transfats, fine. If they don't, mind your own business. "Joe probably would appreciate what I'm doing" is no justification.