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What's the argument here? Spaghetti and meatballs aren't explicitly guaranteed, either, but you can eat them without signing away any other rights.
by aesh2Xa1 8y ago
What's the argument here? Spaghetti and meatballs aren't explicitly guaranteed, either, but you can eat them without signing away any other rights.
- beambot 8y agos/spaghetti & meatballs/illicit drugs/ and that argument falls apart. You will quickly lose other rights, even though drugs aren't explicitly guaranteed or prohibited by the constitution either. (Not addressing GPs argument, just that the spaghetti & meatballs one doesn't hold water.)
- samstave 8y agoBone Saws aren't banned either, and retinal eye-scans of assassins will not make the world a safer place. Having Humanist-Centric politics makes the world a better place. Humans with shitty governments, parenting and environments which are shitty typically wind up being shitty humans. Building walls, guns, bombs, cages, cops, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes are no substitute for actually working to be better humans
- afjl 8y agoI agree but you can't realistically build policy around "working to be better humans". Walls, guns, surveillance, etc are all easily deployable policies with easily measurable results. I don't enjoy the surveillance state or waiting 2 hours for airport security but it is tolerable...to an extent.
- labster 8y agoTell that to the residents of Old Smoky, who lost their poor meatballs to government regulation.