tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080009.post-1122418266490398382005-07-26T15:35:00.000-07:002005-07-26T15:51:06.496-07:00I see where the 'Nanny State', aka the Vancouver Island Medical Health officer, wants to keep young girls from baking their bods in the tanning parlors. He wants it passed into decree that no juveniles are to be entitled to partake of excesses of UV and, while he is at it, he also wants it rendered illegal for minors to adorn those fried bodies with tats. I think this is carrying state control to a ludicrous extreme. In fact, after a vacation in Hawaii last year, I came to believe that it was some sort of generation genetic manifestation that all young females are now thrust from the womb bearing some sort of inscription on the lower back just above the panty-line. Such tattoos were so common, that rare was the junior miss who did not bear one. I think even those spending their summers at tropical Bible camps were so adorned.<br />Personally, I am not so much of a tat-person, since I am of a generation who associated such decoration with seafarin' men, criminals and assorted low-lifes. Doubtless, in modern context I am wrong, but I am comfortable with my biases and choose to keep them, thank-you.<br />But, back to the tanning salons, will the MHO also be mounting beach patrols to chase the scalliwags from the seaside, since the same rays as can be found in the parlors, also exude from the sun?<br />I mean, why should I, as a citizen of this society, be particularly exercised if young females want to fry their little titties off? They are their little titties, to do with as they like. If they want to court melanoma, then that is their concern. Or, at the very least, their parents' concern, it sure as hell isn't mine. I mean, for Christ's sake, if you want to go around banning things that young people indulge in, why not ban those fucking noisy, clattering and a thousand times more dangerous skateboards? I'd buy into that one. At the same time, how about upping the minimum driver's licence age to 21, so acned boneheads with thudding boom-boxes don't scream up and down my street (a park zone) at freeway speeds. That one would have my support, as well.<br />However, increase incursions on the right of the public to be stupid cuts nowhere with me. It is my right, and my kid's right to court destruction as he or I would choose. It's the way of a democracy, so leave my freedom alone.Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212863114942369699noreply@blogger.com