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“Anything else bad across might abuse” includes things that people can’t possibly delude themselves into thinking it would be rational to outlaw, such as cars a
by centimeter 6y ago
“Anything else bad across might abuse” includes things that people can’t possibly delude themselves into thinking it would be rational to outlaw, such as cars and caustic cleaning agents.
Of course, shockingly few of these ban-heavy countries, with the exception of the East Asian ones, have considered the much more effective strategy of adopting laws to reduce the number of bad actors. Switzerland is almost unique in only adopting laws to reduce the number of bad actors (very strict immigration system) but having fairly lax object laws (knives are mostly fine, guns are relatively loosely regulated) and it works well for them.
- ben_w 6y ago> Switzerland is almost unique in only adopting laws to reduce the number of bad actors (very strict immigration system) Strict? 25% of Switzerland’s population is foreign-born[1], and they are in the Schengen area, so no passport needed to cross the borders. I’ve cycled through at least three, none of which were even marked. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Switzerland#/media/File%3ASwitzerland%2C_permanent_foreign_residents_as_%25_of_total_population%2C_1900-2011.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Switzerland#/...
- centimeter 6y ago"Strict" doesn't necessarily mean "don't let anyone in"; in this case it means "have a rigorous validation process to ensure you only let in very desirable migrants".
- ben_w 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Rights_Directive#Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Rights_Directive#S...