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We are. Free people that consent to laws in the interest of the public good. Ideally anyway.
by libraryatnight 6y ago
We are. Free people that consent to laws in the interest of the public good. Ideally anyway.
- rhino369 6y agoIn 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