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It’s amazing how so many people change so little over time.  I was going through some old papers, throwing some away, keeping some, when I stumbled across a diskette.  That word alone should give you a ballpark guess as to how old the files on it were; the “last modified” date of the sole Word document on it is Nov. 19, 1997.  In it, apparently for some now-forgotten class I’ve taken, I detailed my philosophy of health education…which I could have written for the same class tomorrow, practically word for word.

I do hope that if I had written such a thing tomorrow, I could have left out this lousy slippery-slope argument:

For example, some people (health educators included) would ban smoking because it is bad for the smokers. While such a ban would be unenforceable in the real world, imagine for a moment that it did work with 100% efficacy. Then we could ban alcohol, so there would be no more alcoholism, cirrhosis of the liver, or drunk driving accidents. Then we could regulate each person’s diet, and then how much exercise each person gets. Soon after that, the government would decree who may procreate in order to rid the population of genetic diseases. Maybe one day the government would decide that blond-haired, blue-eyed Christians live longer, so that we could gas six million Jews, plus another six million assorted “inferiors.”

Please forgive me–I was only 21 when I wrote that.