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You draw the line there. Others draw it at alcohol. Others at pornography. That’s fine. There should be limits on freedom.
by hdgvhicv 1y ago
You draw the line there. Others draw it at alcohol. Others at pornography.
That’s fine. There should be limits on freedom.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoI suppose you're being ironic, but I think most scholars have (unironically) said as much. Obv. example, yelling "Fire" in a crowded movie house. In most of the cases you mentioned we all wish that people were better people — showed some self-control. (Might as well add fire-arms to your list as well.) And hoping that all people can behave with all out interests in mind, we give people those freedoms (as we do) and then the rest of us are left to endlessly grouse about how fucked up our society is because of those people and their poor choices. So how do you win? Some people have concluded that we might, as a society, actually be better off without "Thing X" as one of our freedoms. I'm willing to entertain those arguments.
- __s 1y ago& it's fair to regulate these. Nobody cares about regulating free slots with no reward, or Balatro I don't want PornHub ads on billboards & commercials I was at a bar, coming out of the bathroom I walked into a wall. They stopped serving me alcohol. I went to the liquor store after & they refused to sell me a bottle of jaeger since I wasn't walking straight. The casino won't stop serving you games until you're broke or winning
- hdgvhicv 1y agoI do t want alcohol adverts on billboards. I do t want adverts for cars either.
- lupusreal 1y agoThe individual liberty argument for gambling being legal might have some merit, maybe. Personally I don't buy it, but I don't think people who disagree with me are necessarily unreasonable. What's completely beyond the pale for me is the government actually promoting it. Unconscionable evil.