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> Laws are primarily not drafted for the responsible and self disciplined people. And yet, they still apply to us. Your benevolent intentions do not invalidate
by homonculus1 7y ago
> Laws are primarily not drafted for the responsible and self disciplined people.
And yet, they still apply to us. Your benevolent intentions do not invalidate our stake in the restrictions that are imposed upon us.
Many people find constant paternalistic intrusions on the part of the state to be a legitimately worse cost than a marginal increase in behavior by bad actors. Exercising authority over petty matters may be a free action in your utility calculus, but it adds up to a significant irritation and a material quality-of-life burden to those of us who value the freedom to simply buy a beer when we want to.
Please consider this point of view. Society is not a sterile engineering problem to be optimized in terms of concrete inputs and outputs.