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The laws in question are tyrannical infringements of personal liberty. You don't have a right to prohibit people from trading a service for money.
by Jabanga 9y ago
The laws in question are tyrannical infringements of personal liberty. You don't have a right to prohibit people from trading a service for money.
- AlexandrB 9y agoSo based on your comment the following are "tyrannical infringements of personal liberty": * laws against child labor * laws against prostitution * minimum wage laws * background check laws As these all prohibit some subset of people from trading a service for money. My question is: would repealing any of these laws actually affect you or your job? I'm guessing not.
- Jabanga 9y agoAre children capable of providing informed consent for the purposes of the law? That's questionable, so it's questionable if all child labour prohibitions infringe upon individual liberty. But laws against prostitution and low wage work (aka minimum wage) are absolutely infringements of personal liberty, even if they directly affect only a tiny subset of the population.
- dang 9y ago> tyrannical infringements of personal liberty Please don't post ideological talking points to HN. This kind of generic argument is never interesting and therefore always off topic on the site. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html