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You have voluntarily restricted your own freedoms, so I’m not sure what we’re arguing about.

• pdonis 7y ago
  > You have voluntarily restricted your own freedoms No, I've exercised my own freedom to choose what's best for me. > I’m not sure what we’re arguing about. First, you made an obviously wrong factual claim, so I called you on it. It is not true that "everyone’s choices impact everyone else in serious, often fatal, ways". Second, this wrong factual claim is not harmless, because, as you yourself note, it is being used as justification for the government to exercise draconian powers to restrict everyone's freedom. The government cannot be trusted to exercise such powers responsibly. No government can, because governments are run by humans, and no humans can be trusted with that much power over other humans. That was supposed to be the key lesson that got the United States of America started as an independent country, but we seem to have forgotten it.