Consumer Reports, Hookahs, and Legal Positivism

by on February 28, 2008 @ 2:23 pm

in Education, Health and Fitness, Science and Technology, Statism

Consumer Reports reports that hookahs are not as healthy as many people seem to think. I’m not surprised. What I find interesting and disturbing is the view about law and the state that is expressed by the CR employee’s kid Daniel at the end of the article. What is this guy teaching his kid, huh? “They wouldn’t make something legal if it were so unsafe.” As if everything is naturally illegal by default, and it is the job of wise state’smen to choose what to make legal (allow us to do).

About Geoffrey Allan Plauché  (370 Posts)

Geoffrey is an Aristotelian-Liberal political philosopher and an adjunct instructor for Buena Vista University. His work has appeared in the Journal of Libertarian Studies, the Journal of Value Inquiry, and Transformers and Philosophy. He lives in Edgewood, KY with his wife and two children.


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