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> People want to retweet People want to gamble, too, and to drink alcohol, and to shoot heroin. That doesn't mean those things are good for them, or that it's
by smacktoward 7y ago
> People want to retweet
People want to gamble, too, and to drink alcohol, and to shoot heroin. That doesn't mean those things are good for them, or that it's axiomatically ideal either for them individually or for society at large to not have any restrictions on their ability to satisfy those desires.
- concert-gilled 7y agoAre you equating retweets to using heroin?
- homonculus1 7y agoHistorically, though, the restrictions placed in pursuit of your proposed ideal have caused enormous suffering and destroyed entire communities through mass incarceration, corruption, and gang/cartel violence fueled by black market money. Attempting to stamp out negative desires by decree through large-scale force has plausibly caused far more damage to society than simply accepting that a small fraction of people will burn up their lives, smash in some car windows, and eventually kill themselves in pursuit of their vice. And the former problem hasn't even replaced the latter, now we just have both.