Commentary
Apparently we are to have warning labels on alcohol. What’s next? Warning labels on lions?
The latter would be harder to affix for precisely the obvious reason that they’re not needed because everyone has known it for tens of thousands of years: Lions are dangerous. Like booze.
I sympathize with Sen. Patrick Brazeau’s personal struggles with alcohol and those of other people. Millions and millions, in fact. But is it really beneficial to have government scribbling misleading slogans about things everybody already knows all over everything in hopes of terrifying us into passive misery?
Brazeau, sponsor of the bill, said: “This bill is not about prohibition or nanny state overreach. It is about empowering consumers with facts.” Bosh. What facts we didn’t already have? Think of the pejorative terms for “drunk” and “drunkard” in countless languages ever since humans discovered fermentation and promptly began abusing it. The question is whether the government should nag us pointlessly until it drives us to drink….