Comments on: Do YOU See It?

By: ps

ps — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:35:17 +0000

Vidyohs, nothing wrong with the people peacefully assembling to petiton the government for change. In this case the irony is that these people are petitioning the government to take away a food choice. Anyone in South Korea can choose not to buy US beef if the ban is lifted, maintaing the ban is what limits choice. So we have some of the people asking the government to limit the choices of all the people. Not nice to impose the will of some of the people on all of the people. Of course our own government continues to do just that (smoking bans in privately owned businesses, prohibitions on unhealthy foods, etc.). Too many people want the government to take care of them – eventually they will get what they are asking for and they will not like it.

By: vidyohs

vidyohs — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:14:33 +0000

I am sorry, I am confused by the post and the responses.

South Korea's government is supposedly modeled after our own and ours is supposed to be a representative republic in which the people express their wishes and the representatives (government) obey and follow suit.

So, with that in mind, how do we twist the fact that people peacefully assembling and expressing their will to force change on a government to become the "government dictating to them what they can have for dinner?" It would appear to me to be an instance of the people saying "we don't want it" and the government either obeying or disobeying. In this case it seems the S. Korean government does not want to do the will of the people. (now none of this addresses the rational of the people and whether they have a good case or not)

I now have to go to a function, when I'd rather stay here and address the U.S. Government and its actions. So, I'll just have to save that for later.

By: Al Abbott

Al Abbott — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:39:27 +0000

". . . food is not like steel or plastics."

Really?!

By: ps

ps — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:33:28 +0000

I just read the full original article. The South Korean protestors are protesting the government's lifting of a ban on US beef. It is by maintaining the ban that the government controls what they can eat. Lifting the ban gives them more options. By protesting the lifting of the ban they are in effect asking the government to continue telling them what to eat.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:12:03 +0000

"They don't want big government and powerful industries telling them what's for dinner."

At the point in time that you can buy organic food, how is big gov't or industries telling them what's for dinner.