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I find it fascinating that people are happy to dunk on Sweden for NOT imposing authoritarian rules on their citizens. Are we not free people?

• libraryatnight 6y ago
  We are. Free people that consent to laws in the interest of the public good. Ideally anyway.
  • rhino369 6y ago
    In the US, most of rules have been propagated by fiat, not lawmaking.
  • s1artibartfast 6y ago
    >We are. Free people that consent to laws in the interest of the public good. Ideally anyway. Not necessarily. Optimizing the for the public good is a social utilitarian argument[1]. Absolute utilitarian is incompatible with personal freedom and justice, so most people put limits on it. Reasonable and moral people can differ on where this limit should be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism