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You're free to move somewhere else with clean water, why do you want to get a nanny state involved? If that "solution" sounds sketchy to you, note that that's

You're free to move somewhere else with clean water, why do you want to get a nanny state involved? If that "solution" sounds sketchy to you, note that that's how you sound to everyone else here.

animal_spirits 3y ago
No one is "free" to move anywhere. Moving is not free in any sense or term. There are enormous costs to moving anywhere. There is no cost to "not" gambling however. This is a poor analogy regardless
- Analemma_ 3y ago
  If you're not willing to pay the transaction costs of moving to a different place with clean water, then you clearly don't actually value it very much. Why should the government get involved?
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carlosjobim 3y ago
You're probably not speaking for anybody else than yourself here, none of us are. When people start moving away from the nanny state in sufficient numbers, the nanny state will also hinder people from escaping. Look at the Soviet Union, China, etc. Australia did that during the covid pandemic, they literally banned citizens from leaving the country.
- anthk 3y ago
  That's a pandemic, not comparable to a dictatorship. If you don't understand this, I hope you don't ever get some place where accountability is required. Because if you tought like that in a company and putting in practice your careless behaviour and lack of maturity, the boss would fire you in the spot.
  - carlosjobim 3y ago
    I think you mostly managed to insult yourself when trying to insult me. The boss would fire me? Well, I have no doubt that you are a reliable worker that no boss would fire, and I'm happy to leave it at that.
  - pawelmurias 3y ago
    The pandemic showed that in a lot of countries government could just suspend basic human rights handing out house arrest to innocent people and get away with it. Didn't murder or rob nobody and was serving a a bigger "prison sentence" for free. The pandemic wasn't prevented and the goverement didn't get guillotined for locking up people and failing to achieve a justifiable goal.
    - anthk 3y ago
      The pandemic showed that the countries with harsh restrictions on travelling such as Spain and Italy had a percentual death count far lower than the so-called "advanced" Northern European countries. Or, well, on regulations, look what happened to these "smart guys" trying to outsmart deep water physics by saving money on proper security policies as if they were that money-grabbing grampa duck from Donald Duck series.

You're free to move somewhere else with clean water, why do you want to get a nanny state involved? If that "solution" sounds sketchy to you, note that that's how you sound to everyone else here.

animal_spirits 3y ago

No one is "free" to move anywhere. Moving is not free in any sense or term. There are enormous costs to moving anywhere. There is no cost to "not" gambling however. This is a poor analogy regardless

Analemma_ 3y ago
If you're not willing to pay the transaction costs of moving to a different place with clean water, then you clearly don't actually value it very much. Why should the government get involved?
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carlosjobim 3y ago

You're probably not speaking for anybody else than yourself here, none of us are. When people start moving away from the nanny state in sufficient numbers, the nanny state will also hinder people from escaping. Look at the Soviet Union, China, etc. Australia did that during the covid pandemic, they literally banned citizens from leaving the country.

anthk 3y ago
That's a pandemic, not comparable to a dictatorship. If you don't understand this, I hope you don't ever get some place where accountability is required. Because if you tought like that in a company and putting in practice your careless behaviour and lack of maturity, the boss would fire you in the spot.
- carlosjobim 3y ago
  I think you mostly managed to insult yourself when trying to insult me. The boss would fire me? Well, I have no doubt that you are a reliable worker that no boss would fire, and I'm happy to leave it at that.
- pawelmurias 3y ago
  The pandemic showed that in a lot of countries government could just suspend basic human rights handing out house arrest to innocent people and get away with it. Didn't murder or rob nobody and was serving a a bigger "prison sentence" for free. The pandemic wasn't prevented and the goverement didn't get guillotined for locking up people and failing to achieve a justifiable goal.
  - anthk 3y ago
    The pandemic showed that the countries with harsh restrictions on travelling such as Spain and Italy had a percentual death count far lower than the so-called "advanced" Northern European countries. Or, well, on regulations, look what happened to these "smart guys" trying to outsmart deep water physics by saving money on proper security policies as if they were that money-grabbing grampa duck from Donald Duck series.