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This is a lazy argument. You can say that about any law or any government. We should just stop banning anything bad because the government could accuse you of d
by triceratops 1y ago
This is a lazy argument. You can say that about any law or any government. We should just stop banning anything bad because the government could accuse you of doing it and throw you in jail.
- jack_h 1y agoThis isn’t a lazy argument at all. It’s based off of millennia of humans questioning the proper role of government and their failure modes. The US in specific took a lot of inspiration from people such as Polybius and John Locke. It’s not that there is no proper role for government, it’s that some paths end up being a Faustian bargain.
- triceratops 1y ago> it’s that some paths end up being a Faustian bargain If enforcing equality of treatment and access in housing, employment, and education is one of those paths, then the government has gone to a very bad place. And literally everything has turned to shit.