Read this on FOX News about a week ago and really thought it hit all the nails on their respective heads, regarding the recent attempts by the Federal government to ban online gambling. Regardless of your opinion on the subject (or even if you don’t know the details of the story at all), this is a good read.

There are likely many people whose reaction to all of this is “so what?” It’s tough to get too worked up over a ban on something as seemingly niche and targeted as a ban on Internet gambling. Who other than Internet gamblers should care?

Part of the problem is the mentality that comes with this kind of legislation. The gambling ban seems to have been supported by two similar approaches to governance that, although they come from opposite sides of the political spectrum, are generally quite similar.

From the right, many feel that if they’re personally morally opposed to a particular consensual activity, it ought to be banned for everyone. From the left, it’s the mentality that because some people can’t engage in a particular activity responsibly and without harming themselves, that activity ought to be banned for everyone. One is moral paternalism. The other is Nanny State paternalism. But the result is the same. The government makes your decisions for you.

For the full article, Click Here.