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Originally Posted by BigV
As for freedom, let me ask you, what about when two parties are in conflict, when their freedoms come at the expense of the other's. Imagine a situation where a manufacturing plant wants the freedom to discharge waste into a river (your introduction of the EPA made me think of this). They wish to be able to be free to do so. Imagine an individual downstream that wants to drink from or bathe in the water of the river. Without government inhibiting the freedoms of either, what happens?
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No business (or individual) has the right to pollute the environment, except when it is necessary during an extreme crisis - generally, during a war. An example would be the atom bomb project during WWII. Sufficient care wasn't taken, and a land was subsequently polluted in several states (Washington St. New Mexico, Tennessee, etc.).
There is no argument for polluting our environment, from a True Conservative - or anyone with a bit of common sense. Where do we live? In this environment, of course.
The EPA has gone FAR beyond it's mandate, however. Now, it's a bureaucracy that can ban any product, or material, from being used, anywhere it pleases. It doesn't need the recommendation of any scientists or doctors - oh no! It's whatever the lunatic in charge decides.