spindown: It doesn't seem to be about vomiting per se but vomiting in the streets due to excessive alcohol consumption. I don't see a problem with that.
mystikmind2000: And that is how they fool you, because it is also not about 'vomiting in the streets due to excessive alcohol consumption' it is about an extreme level of control by authorities which any person who believes in liberty should be horrified by.
Edit: One day when the streets are filled with fart detectors and pick nose cameras, you will look back to where these type of laws had their beginning and realize the mistake of letting them go.
What a ridiculous interpretation of the news story and the Queensland premier's proposal. There is nothing about the proposal that "makes vomiting illegal" or constitutes anything like "extreme level of control".
Authorities have a legitimate role in creating an environment in which people are not encouraged to do harm to themselves and others. Being intoxicated in public to the point of vomiting is something they have always taken seriously, and it has never been an intrusion on liberty to protect such people from themselves, even to the point of taking them into custody.
But all that is proposed here is a nonbinding code of conduct for taverns and their patrons, with the entirely laudable aim of discouraging public drunkenness, which is a danger to drunks and everyone around them.
