alt Hacker News>Who says we need to keep going? That's not a hypothetical question - who says? Why would we do that?
Why wouldn't we? If we're legally precluding people from hobbies that could harm them, there's always going to be a worst legal one.
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chowells • 10/02/2024
Because we're reasonable humans and capable of saying "if that's the worst, we're fine"?
There's an ugliest painting in most galleries, but that doesn't mean we ban them. If the worst legal hobby is beneficial, why would anyone want to ban it? At some point before that, a threshold will be reached where people feel that the harms of a ban outweigh the harms of the practice. I really don't see how this slope is slippery.