[Health-minded institutions not try to regulate human behavior by demanding sovereign power.
They should try to influence human behavior by presenting facts that induce dread.
This is the opposite view from Big Government Liberalism.]
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[If governments do not regulate tobacco cigarettes, then the subject’s responsibilities and freedom increase.
Health-minded institutions must step in.
They must remind the smoker of “his” responsibilities and freedom.
In doing so, they build character.]
[Progressives prefer forced over unforced conversion.
The material outcomes appear identical.
But the immaterial outcomes are not.]
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[Progressives cannot account for the immaterial world.
They cannot see it.
Categorical associations open the opportunity to envision how Progressives immaterially (or spiritually) gain from imposing their organizational objects.]
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[In the case of giving up smoking, the overt behavioral change of unforced conversion appears identical to the change induced by forced conversion.
Progressives do not see that there is an immaterial difference.
Why?
They are committed to a materialist ideology.
Big Government Liberalism is the Materialist Ideology that won the Cold Battle Among the Enlightenment Gods (1945-1989), otherwise known as ‘the Cold War’.
Is it no better than the material ideology that lost the war?
Satan casts out Satan.
Yet, “his” house still stands.]
[Smoking tobacco cigarettes2H is attractive1H. It interrupts repetitive patterns of negative thoughts.
Smoking tobacco cigarettes2H is dreadful2H. It ruins my lungs.
The contradiction may empower the potentials1V underlying my choice2V.
Thus, information3H becomes available to I, seat of choice3V, only indirectly.]
[Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.]
The mirror of the world3H conjures something2H within my desire1H.
Published health concerns appear in the mirror of the world3H.
What is this something2H?
It is dread2H.]
[The intersection is sort of strange.
I, seat of choice3V needs information.
Yet, information comes from the mirror of the world3H.
The mirror of the world3H contextualizes desire, a content-level potential in me1H.]
[I, seat of choice3V, practices reason.
Reason calls for information.
Information comes from the mirror of the world3H.
Health-related information comes from the thought experiment3H.]
