Breath, individuals and society
Dal 13 novembre i locali che forniscono alcolici ai clienti hanno l'obbligo di mettere a disposizione un etilometro per la misurazione del tasso alcolemico. Devono inoltre affiggere le nuove tabelle alcolemiche nel locale.
Si tratta, in fondo di un piccolo aggiornamento delle complesse normative già in vigore e ufficialmente finalizzate alla riduzione degli incidenti stradali, o almeno di quelli dovuti ad ubriachezza. Restano fuori controllo gli incidenti dovuti a stupidità, a nevrosi, to fatigue, poor attention, age and astral conjunctions reported by horoscopes. You tend to say that security must do something.
Unfortunately things are not so simple. What is at stake is not road safety but the relationship between citizens and state. This legislation, like thousands of others, implies that we are not held accountable for the consequences of what we do (an indisputable principle), but we must abide by rules that determine what is appropriate for us to do and not do to reduce the risk of damage which would possibly responsible. What is at stake is thus the intrusion of subjectivity in our social and then in our personal responsibility.
contrasting behaviors are destructive, but not because they were considered likely to increase the risk of potential destructive consequences. The logic of these charges is a sort of "spirit possession", in which the company will replace us. The possession of the individual is the social basis of arbitrary authority and violence is a phenomenon even if it is "sold" as prevention and implemented without the military in power. Prevention is often sensible idea, but in my opinion, is when people decide to do it. The law, in practice, violates the freedom to make personal evaluations (right or incorrect) claiming the task of imposing very special assessment schemes (right or wrong). Well I know that with a glass of sparkling wine became a little 'too gay' and I do not drink even the little bit 'of alcohol if I have to drive, while there are people who drink quantities of spirits remain devastating for me perfectly polished. The key issue is the law of the place of the people in the assessment of their ability to drive.
There is a boundary that should not be crossed, and that is regularly crossed the responsibility of society and the responsibilities of the citizen.
I'm not saying that the problem is easily solved, but I say che debba essere posto in modo esplicito.Ad esempio, la società esprime esplicitamente i valori su cui si fonda e quindi organizza anche degli eventi collettivi: realizza la commemorazione della liberazione e non quella della marcia su Roma. Tuttavia non si permette di controllare se le persone leggono e approvano libri antifascisti o reazionari. I cittadini hanno la responsabilità di ciò che leggono e finché non organizzano dei raid fascisti restano cittadini liberi di dirigere la loro mente.
La società può anche organizzare delle campagne informative su una corretta alimentazione, tuttavia non si permette mai di decidere quali cittadini possano comprare cioccolata. E’ scontato che i diabetici non dovrebbero mangiare dolciumi e that people with cirrhosis should not consume alcohol, but people buy on their own responsibility and not food and drink at the cash register must show a medical certificate.
These distinctions are obvious: they are the fascists who burn books were "wrong" and the parents who allow or prohibit candy to children deemed (rightly) does not fully responsible.
But there are some issues where it is not obvious that the boundary separating the scope of state control and the scope of individual freedom.
In Italy, for example, individuals have the freedom to keep in the cellar with an arsenal of automatic weapons. Even a pistol and a shotgun can be acquired only under certain conditions. In the U.S., but you can buy weapons such as fragrances are purchased. There will stop the people who made a bad use of weapons, while in Italy it is illegal for the simple illegal possession of arms. In terms of the principles is not obvious who is right, but a discussion on the subject deserves to be placed precisely in terms of principle and not habits. I would not have armed people was running, but I do not want to be treated as a minority. The state, therefore, there must be limits because beyond a certain point becomes an authoritarian state, even if the process of gradually get used to the citizens to bear an increasingly dense cover of rules.
years has widened, according to a logic of "development cancer" rather than on the basis of an explicit debate, the scope of government powers at the expense of the sphere of individual responsibility. In public places, for example, you can not smoke, and the excuse is to health: not only can you smoke in a closed room where they are non-smokers, but you can not even smoke in open areas of railway stations . In practice, the company states that it is better not to smoke and that you can not smoke [cf. POST Smoking is injurious almost like the tackling smoking ]. Sanziona i comportamenti individuali e non i comportamenti dannosi per gli altri cittadini. Da non fumatrice sono poco disturbata da tale “allargamento” della sfera di controllo sociale, ma da cittadina sono terrorizzata. In questa logica lo Stato potrebbe avanzare la pretesa di controllare altre mie abitudini o inclinazioni o preferenze.
La logica degli etilometri è la stessa. Essa, di fatto, sul piano individuale non mi limita in nulla, perché comunque io non guido nemmeno se bevo un bicchiere di vino: da prima della normativa, o guidavo o non bevevo. Tuttavia, ora non posso nemmeno cenare in un locale pubblico con il mio compagno che è perfettamente in grado di tenere impeccabilmente la strada anche se beve. Certamente is not an alcoholic, but the Breathalyzer does not "hits" only drunks. The law, in fact, prevents me from an intimate dinner, we can not dine at two, but only three: myself, my companion and shadow of a minister. Reeta But the fact that if I go out with a man I think the most interesting things of his BAC.
When the state becomes a parental (ie, will retain the right to criticize the habits and not just to hit the crimes), it automatically becomes an authoritarian state. The film Fahrenheit 451 , Francois Truffaut, which incorporates issues raised by George Orwell in 1984 [cf. POST George Orwell e il totalitarismo ] mostra, in chiave fantascientifica la linea di tendenza delle attuali società “democratiche”. Nel film la società fa irruzione nella vita privata delle persone incoraggiando la dipendenza da psicofarmaci e proibendo la lettura dei libri. Di fatto, oggi, siamo ancora liberi di leggere ma non di decidere se bere un bicchierino al ristorante. Decide l’etilometro se dopo un bicchiere di vino “ci sta anche il digestivo”. Ora, al ristorante sono a casa mia: pago il coperto (cioè un affitto) e quel tavolo è per un’ora mio come la casa in cui abito. In auto sono a casa mia. A casa mia lo stato controlla ciò che faccio: non lo fa con una perquisizione examination to determine whether I have a book in his pocket but with a search of my blood. The encroachment
between "our affairs" and "facts of society" is even more massive. It was created over time, gradually, under the indifference of all and no one to identify the scope of this ideological and political process [cf. POST control of children and traffic ]. Even when I was young there were "speed limits", for which he was not considered a crime only because somebody to invest but simply the fact of a higher rate than established "by the company." However, they were virtually absent from the limits of parking: one could not park in front of a gate or to block traffic, but in other cases one could climb out of the car as well as at home. Today however is forbidden to park anywhere except in places where parking is authorized (and paid). In practice we are free to turn in the car but not to stop. As if we were free to eat but not to go to the toilet. And this nonsense is considered obvious by all: an annoyance obvious. Even be considered right by ecologists, as if the solution to the problem of pollution in the persecution of motorists rather than those in non-polluting means of production and organization public service really good.
We are so accustomed to the intrusion of privacy in our society that we consider normal an hour before leaving home for somewhere to park or light a cigarette only in the places permitted. Soon we will consider also normal to make a romantic dinner with the breath testing. We will not say more, by candlelight, "I get lost in your eyes, my love," but "you have a BAC wonderful."
Authoritarianism crosses easily into neurosis and stupidity, as the symptoms fade in regular social individual symptoms. We must become idiots and madmen to join idiocy and the madness that have become state law and order.
The gradual expansion of the regulatory domain desensitizes people to respect their need to choose and in the opposite direction, the neurosis of those permits "competent authorities" to take responsibility that only affect the people.
In this logic may disappear the freedom to teach (replaced by teaching the "right"), free love (replaced by socially approved procedures of courtship and mating), freedom of thought (replaced by standardized protocols of thought). You can then get to the "newspeak" of Orwell, that is a weird language suitable to channel the thought processes in the "right direction".
It 's very worrying that journalists and intellectuals "progressives" are so quick to quote Orwell if you limited the freedom of information and are reluctant to do so humiliated when the freedom to live in their own way without hurting anyone. The bad news is hitting movements and political parties, but not news if it humiliates the individual by treating them like puppets.
Even on issues with dramatic social implications, such as the prohibition applied to the "hard drugs" "progressives are silent." Prohibition in the United States has produced a people of drunks and drug prohibition feeds the illicit drug market, creating vicious circles horrifying self-destruction among individuals and organized crime. Yet the idea of \u200b\u200bliberalizing drugs (which took a good shot to the affairs of the Mafia) is proclaimed aloud by the progressives, but only four cats radical tradition.
What personal freedom and dignity of people neglected by the right issues are not surprising. However, the neglect of the left regarding the quality of people's lives is disturbing. Unfortunately, even these most astonishing negligence. As we are resigned to a company that we decided to we are resigning over an opposition that decided not to tackle the most dramatic economic and social issues considered quite normal that the quality of life of people is to slide along tracks socially approved.
Silvia