Sunday, August 3, 2008

Life Extension: Danish style

News from Denmark's "Prevention Commission".

Bottom line (literally as well as figuratively) "We can't remove personal responsibility totally" says the spokesman of the (in this case correctly named) liberal party.

One more time: how long is it until someone decides that people too stupid, or too muddled by the worst cognitive failures of homo behaviorus, to make the socially preferred choices regarding eating, exercise and smoking are simply not well suited to playing a role in selecting their own leaders and so should be excluded from doing so (for their own good, of course).

A more narrow concern: what is the welfare economics that underlies the prevention commisssion?

Hat tip: Lars Skipper