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<blockquote data-quote="Subdood" data-source="post: 63977363" data-attributes="member: 228729"><p>I totally agree. What sort of mentality is it that accepts an arbitrary decision by some faceless government entity to prohibit something for the totally vacuous excuse of "the public health?"</p><p></p><p>In reading these posts, you'd think all tanning beds cause cancer all the time, or that all tanning beds cause sunburns all the time, which leads to cancer all the time... at least in Illinois; and apparently in CA and VT. </p><p></p><p>What about tanning beds in the other 47 states? <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/old/scratch.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":scratch:" title="scratch :scratch:" data-shortname=":scratch:" /> Are those states less "enlightened" (no pun intended) than IL, CA, and VT? Maybe we need a "public health mandate" to educate and enlighten the citizens of those 47 states?</p><p></p><p>All tanning beds do is shorten the amount of time one needs to be exposed to UV radiation to get a tan; or a sunburn. One could get an equal amount of UV radiation by spending sufficient time outdoors, in the sun. They'd just have to spend more time there. Can someone abuse them? Absolutely. I abused a ski lift one sunny day in the winter years ago to hasten a ski tan before I returned from leave. I got 2nd degree blisters for my stupidity. Maybe for the sake of "public health" we need to ban the use of ski lifts on bright sunny days?</p><p></p><p>Consider too that the higher in altitude one gets, the greater their exposure to UV radiation - naturally. Should we ban all human outdoor activity above sea level? It'd improve the "public health," certainly.</p><p></p><p>Does too much sun create potential health problems? Yes! And major "duh!" btw. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/old/doh.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":doh:" title="doh :doh:" data-shortname=":doh:" /> Ever wonder why cowboys in the old west are always pictured with long sleeves? We've known about sunburn for as long as we've existed as a race. The pain of a sunburn is usually cause sufficient to prevent someone from repeating that activity too many times. Maybe we need a "public health directive" to remind us that sunburns hurt?</p><p></p><p>What frightens me is that there seem to be altogether too many people willing to give up their liberty to a faceless, unelected government bureaucracy for some unholy desire that the government assume responsibility for their welfare rather than themselves - or worse, that that same government, for some unimaginably bizarre reason, knows what's better for them than they do. </p><p></p><p>Are we really that irresponsible, ignorant, and incompetent -- have we finally spiralled down so far that we've forgotten the lessons of the common sunburn that we need the government to tell us sunburns are bad?</p><p></p><p>One of the truly scariest phrases (and ideologies) ever concocted has to be, "for the public health."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Subdood, post: 63977363, member: 228729"] I totally agree. What sort of mentality is it that accepts an arbitrary decision by some faceless government entity to prohibit something for the totally vacuous excuse of "the public health?" In reading these posts, you'd think all tanning beds cause cancer all the time, or that all tanning beds cause sunburns all the time, which leads to cancer all the time... at least in Illinois; and apparently in CA and VT. What about tanning beds in the other 47 states? :scratch: Are those states less "enlightened" (no pun intended) than IL, CA, and VT? Maybe we need a "public health mandate" to educate and enlighten the citizens of those 47 states? All tanning beds do is shorten the amount of time one needs to be exposed to UV radiation to get a tan; or a sunburn. One could get an equal amount of UV radiation by spending sufficient time outdoors, in the sun. They'd just have to spend more time there. Can someone abuse them? Absolutely. I abused a ski lift one sunny day in the winter years ago to hasten a ski tan before I returned from leave. I got 2nd degree blisters for my stupidity. Maybe for the sake of "public health" we need to ban the use of ski lifts on bright sunny days? Consider too that the higher in altitude one gets, the greater their exposure to UV radiation - naturally. Should we ban all human outdoor activity above sea level? It'd improve the "public health," certainly. Does too much sun create potential health problems? Yes! And major "duh!" btw. :doh: Ever wonder why cowboys in the old west are always pictured with long sleeves? We've known about sunburn for as long as we've existed as a race. The pain of a sunburn is usually cause sufficient to prevent someone from repeating that activity too many times. Maybe we need a "public health directive" to remind us that sunburns hurt? What frightens me is that there seem to be altogether too many people willing to give up their liberty to a faceless, unelected government bureaucracy for some unholy desire that the government assume responsibility for their welfare rather than themselves - or worse, that that same government, for some unimaginably bizarre reason, knows what's better for them than they do. Are we really that irresponsible, ignorant, and incompetent -- have we finally spiralled down so far that we've forgotten the lessons of the common sunburn that we need the government to tell us sunburns are bad? One of the truly scariest phrases (and ideologies) ever concocted has to be, "for the public health." [/QUOTE]
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