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Nothing is "just" commerce at work. This is also a prime example of the naturalistic fallacy. Just because these things happen to be legal doesn't necessitate t

• vinceguidry 11y ago
  When did I say they should be legal? The political process has limits. There's such a thing as political capital and there's only so much of it at any given time. Most people seem to think that shit is unlimited, that we could just fix everything all at once if the politicians just knew what it was. That's emphatically not the case. Issues all get their time in the sun, and the political fix is almost never perfect. The issues you compared social video games to, slavery et. al. all were banned, rightfully, a long time ago. When I say that this is "commerce as usual" I mean that the market will sort out the complained-about issues itself, without the need for a law. Legislation is a complicated, tortuous affair. Society needs many, many individual events to draw on in order to draft effective legislation. Someone has to study this stuff in order to write a law, someone has to convince others to vote for the law. None of this is free, it all comes at the expense of other issues needing attention at the moment. Votes get traded like horses. In this case, political attention isn't needed, at least not yet. There are way too many other issues that beg attention.