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Having a garbage dump and having a car that needs work are not the same thing. Why is it that when these discussions come up the proponents for controlling othe

Having a garbage dump and having a car that needs work are not the same thing. Why is it that when these discussions come up the proponents for controlling other peoples behavior always bring these ridiculous over the top strawmen with obvious answers? Why not something like "if I throw a candy wrapper in my yard and it blows into your yard that affects you doesn't it?" The same point is made, but then it becomes obvious what is and isn't an externality: me having a car in my driveway with a flat tire is not causing a negative externality for you. Me piling garbage in my yard does.

pwg 4y ago
> Why is it that when these discussions come up the proponents for controlling other peoples behavior always bring these ridiculous over the top stawmen with obvious answers? Because if the proponents expressed their real reason, it would sound petty or racist, and as they don't want to sound petty or racist, they have to invent "ridiculous over the top st[r]awmen" to hide their real underlying reason from view.