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Guns exist solely to hurt or kill, there isn't much else you can do with them that's legal. Drugs, I believe some of them probably should be legal.

• angelbar 5y ago
• mellavora 5y ago
  Except that shooting sports have been in the Olympics longer than just about any other sport. It is a great form of meditation; for an analogy I refer the curious to "Zen and the Art of Archery" And many of my friends are hunters. This is a nice way to put food on the table. Esp with deer populations not having much other control on them since we got rid of most of the other large predators.
• 1337shadow 5y ago
  Actually, shooting is a sport that isn't meant to hurt or kill. Drugs are great for society, doesn't matter how much they hurt and kill.
  • krono 5y ago
    That's precisely why both are available in a highly regulated fashion rather than completely outlawed.
    • 1337shadow 5y ago
      That's exactly why the law was not outlawing encryption at all: > the proposed passage that would have forced companies to decrypt encrypted data upon request by the authorities got removed from the draft law. I guess the article is pretty confusing.
      • ttybird2 5y ago
        It is outlawing end-to-end encryption instead.
        • 1337shadow 5y ago
          What makes you think that?
          • ttybird2 5y ago
            This: "> the proposed passage that would have forced companies to decrypt encrypted data upon request by the authorities"
            • 1337shadow 5y ago
              This is not against encryption, this is about decryption of encrypted data upon request by the authorities.
              • ttybird2 5y ago
                I never said that it was against encryption in general. Only that it was against end-to-end encryption.
                • 1337shadow 5y ago
                  This is not what I read.
          • psyc 5y ago
            Here is the Wikipedia article. The answer is in the very short intro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption You're very active in this thread and making quite strongly opinionated statements. Probably worth a quick read.
            • 1337shadow 5y ago
      • krono 5y ago
        This disproportionately affects all encrypted data. Also, I imagine a lot of non-nefarious encryption is done to hide data from the same entities that would be in control of the proposed back-door.
  • ben_w 5y ago
    I recall China fought a war against the British specifically because the latter wanted to sell a drug which was terrible for society to the former.
    • 1337shadow 5y ago
      Yes, I'm sorry I thought my second sentence was so stupid it would not be taken seriously...