[mod.politics] Government doing the right thing

kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU (08/20/86)

    [ Your anecdote about flu virus germs shows that the government 
    did the right thing, based on information available at the time.
    It seems to me to be dirty pool to make fun of people based on 
    hindsight. - CWM]

  Not at all.  My point is that it isn't really government's business
to get involved.  The government should not take sides except when it
is extremely obvious what's what.  For instance sales of a drug
containing deadly amounts cyanide should be halted, but not drugs
whose only problem is that nobody has proven them safe.
  There is at least some evidence that people