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Should government care how much we weigh? Having just read Jacob Weisberg’s article on Bloomberg paternalism, I wonder whether our position on healthcare reform, on financial regulation, and other legislative topics relates to the same idea. It’s all about government. More or less? If you created a more government/less government continuum, for each issue, is your dot in the same place on the scale?