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Originally posted by wonderwench
Pre-emptive regulation seeks to undermine the free market by preventing products which consumers would, if allowed to exercise their liberty, wish to purchase.
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assuming they would purchase them if left to their own devices. And of course they probably would, thanks to the massive onslaught of TV and radio commercials, magazine ads, and billboards that would inevitably tout both the previously undiagnosed lifestyle deficiency and the remedy for it.