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I’m not convinced there’s a problem to solve here. Nobody is advocating for poorly-targeted legislation. IMO it’s better to focus on “101: how legislation work
by epgui 3y ago
I’m not convinced there’s a problem to solve here. Nobody is advocating for poorly-targeted legislation.
IMO it’s better to focus on “101: how legislation works” before trying to argue in nonspecific ways that legislation fails to work as intended. The devil is always in the details, so unless someone wants to argue that “protecting vulnerable people” is not a good goal, it makes no sense to criticize a hypothetical law we don’t have in front of our eyes.
- monero-xmr 3y agoThat’s another way of saying, “Well I have no idea, but in the abstract I want the government to use force to prevent people from doing things that hurt themselves.” And I’m saying that’s impossible, and in trying to do the impossible you will hurt society.
- epgui 3y ago> And I’m saying that’s impossible That's both a serious failure of the imagination, as well as a failure to recognize that a large number of problems (of the same kind) have been solved successfully across the world by various legislation. There is a mountain of prior art here, a lot of which is totally non-controversial.