I have a feeling that if companies did have a problem with jittery employees, and they linked the problem to coffee consumption, a few e-mails that said "We catch you drinking coffee and you're fired" would do the trick. Fundamentally, though, the healthfulness of steroids, or lack thereof, is beside the point. You can make that decision up for yourself and for your own children.
Here's what we're really talking about:
- Individual adults choosing to ingest a substance into their own bodies.
- Groups of individuals who are capable of determining the rules of their group's membership (based on the standards of long-term athletic ability, good health, fair play, crowd appeal, etc.) and enforcing those rules if they so choose.
What the creation of a governmental committee on steroids says is that the above groups of individuals have the "freedom" to act on the conclusions of their own minds, as long as the powers that be, representing the majority will rather than the rights of individuals, deem those thoughts and actions permissible. You're "free" if your conclusions are somehow mystically in synch with the brains of your brethren. You're "free" to act on your thoughts as long as those thoughts are a product of some kind of mental orgy, like they were ejaculated during the climax of a Vulcan mind-meld cluster-fuck. Choose wisely, my friend. One path will lead you down the path of collective truth, while the other will lead you to a big, ugly, three-headed ogre carrying a spiked, metal dildo telling you, "Nice try, fuckhead, now get your ass back on path number one."
Freedom is alive and well in America, as long as you do what the majority tells you to do, and as long as no politician has correctly estimated this majority and attempted to capitalize on it. This is not a democracy on steroids. This is democracy.
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Are we a republic or a democracy?
by Walter Williams
(Just replace the phrase "the Great Legislator of the Universe" in the John Adams quote with "the nature of man". It was Ayn Rand who eliminated the mystical source of rights and identified the requirements of man's life as the source of, and reason for, his political rights. Perhaps one day she'll be considered a "founding mother". Too bad that doesn't roll of the tongue as well as the more common phrase.)
