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I'm gonna go ahead and assume you don't believe in driver licenses and speed limits either

• protocolture 3mo ago
  I have nuanced views on both. I am gonna go ahead and assume theres no freedom you wouldn't give away for safety if the government justified it in the right way.
  • xeyownt 3mo ago
    It's not that simple. Rules do not necessarily reduce freedom, they can in fact even provide more freedom on the longer term, when the system finds a new balance. The difficulty of course is to find the proper rules and evaluate these effects from current system state.
    • cucumber3732842 3mo ago
      >Rules do not necessarily reduce freedom, they can in fact even provide more freedom on the longer term, when the system finds a new balance. The kind of rules being peddled by the kind of people who peddle rules in a fireworks thread are almost certainly the exact opposite of the kind that direct things at a freer equilibrium. It's not that we can't have rules. It's that we can't have shortsighted people with bad morals writing tules.
    • protocolture 3mo ago
      >Rules do not necessarily reduce freedom, they can in fact even provide more freedom on the longer term Back to my point above that there are laws and regulations that are fine, and then theres the pre-crime nonsense trying to reduce risk to zero that are being peddled today.