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You have it all wrong. We have a visceral reaction to the government making demands on how we should run our lives. I think your disdain of freedom of choice is

You have it all wrong. We have a visceral reaction to the government making demands on how we should run our lives. I think your disdain of freedom of choice is pretty pathetic and troubling at the least for someone who considers themselves a free country.

SideburnsOfDoom 3y ago
> demands on how we should run our lives Unless I install the pipes personally, it's someone else's actions that are detrimentally impacting my life, isn't it? > I think your disdain of freedom of choice is pretty pathetic and troubling What I have disdain for is the pathetic and troubling idea that we are somehow, isolated individuals whose choices impact no-one else, and not in an interdependent society.
- kaliqt 3y ago
  Using it or not is an individual choice.
  - SamoyedFurFluff 3y ago
    Using… the water that comes from the tap is an individual choice?? So like do you shower with bottled water for freedom or what precisely
  - SideburnsOfDoom 3y ago
    How popular is desiccation due to choosing not to use water, as a lifestyle?
halcek 3y ago
You've let corporations, whose interest is profit, not health, or good service, dictate what the government should regulate instead, for the benefit of the population.
- wil421 3y ago
  My local county government services my water. Pretty much everywhere in my state it’s the same. There’s not a corporation involved at all, unless they contracted work out to a construction company.
someone7x 3y ago
Are there some poor unfortunate souls out there that actually prefer their water laced with lead? Is this the next generation of anti-vax dogma? That lead pipes are actually good?
subpixel 3y ago
Put more plainly: “the afflictions of other Americans is not my problem - I’m in this for myself and that’s what freedom means to me.”
thfuran 3y ago
Lacing the water supply with an environmentally persistent toxin isn't a freedom, its an impingement on everyone else's.
mathieuh 3y ago
Poe's Law applies here.
DougEiffel 3y ago
Lead poisoning is freedom We've always at been at war with Eurasia.
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SideburnsOfDoom 3y ago

> demands on how we should run our lives Unless I install the pipes personally, it's someone else's actions that are detrimentally impacting my life, isn't it? > I think your disdain of freedom of choice is pretty pathetic and troubling What I have disdain for is the pathetic and troubling idea that we are somehow, isolated individuals whose choices impact no-one else, and not in an interdependent society.

kaliqt 3y ago
Using it or not is an individual choice.
- SamoyedFurFluff 3y ago
  Using… the water that comes from the tap is an individual choice?? So like do you shower with bottled water for freedom or what precisely
- SideburnsOfDoom 3y ago
  How popular is desiccation due to choosing not to use water, as a lifestyle?

halcek 3y ago

You've let corporations, whose interest is profit, not health, or good service, dictate what the government should regulate instead, for the benefit of the population.

wil421 3y ago
My local county government services my water. Pretty much everywhere in my state it’s the same. There’s not a corporation involved at all, unless they contracted work out to a construction company.

someone7x 3y ago

Are there some poor unfortunate souls out there that actually prefer their water laced with lead? Is this the next generation of anti-vax dogma? That lead pipes are actually good?

subpixel 3y ago

Put more plainly: “the afflictions of other Americans is not my problem - I’m in this for myself and that’s what freedom means to me.”

thfuran 3y ago

Lacing the water supply with an environmentally persistent toxin isn't a freedom, its an impingement on everyone else's.

mathieuh 3y ago

Poe's Law applies here.

DougEiffel 3y ago

Lead poisoning is freedom We've always at been at war with Eurasia.

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