When Government Censorship Is Good For The People

Here is an article about a study that blames big business for teaching children bad eating habits through advertising. The suggested solution is to give the fast food industry two years to shape up and if they fail then to regulate them. To have big business teach children how to make healthy choices through advertising sounds good except if you are the big business whom makes money because children and the adults they become make poor choices. The people who die and suffer ill health because of those ill choices are considered acceptable losses in their pursuit of reaching the noble goal of making money. I am sure big business will invest money to influence judges and politicians so their goal is not endangered. They may even receive that same money from the taxpayers as a corporate welfare deal.

How you fall on this issue and other issue determines how you feel about the political ideals upon which the United States is founded. According to the Declaration of Independence the purpose of government is to insure the natural human rights of its people. One of those rights the right to life and its descendent the right to health is violated by big business in its quest to obtain wealth. On the other side of the equation is those who will loose their jobs if fast food advertising is regulated and what country they reside in. Since Medicare is a large part of the federal budget and money not spent on junk food will be spent in another then the best action seems to be that regulation is the best choice.

I hold the government needs to be consistent in their action in that they should regulate the sexual and violent content of television and other media as studies have shown that both of these are harmful to the viewers. Alcohol use and marital choices are other places where they can choose to regulate industries. I realize that the opposition will call censorship but if you truly hold to the values upon which the United States was founded then you agree that governments are instituted among human beings to secure the natural human right of life and health even at the cost of a reduction in liberty. This is because the right to life trumps the right to liberty with few exceptions.