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piva00last Wednesday at 9:16 PM3 repliesview on HN

> But I don’t know if I should be denied access because of those people.

That's the majority of people though, if you really think that I assume you wouldn't have a problem with needing to be licenced to have this kind of access, right?


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buu700last Wednesday at 11:52 PM

Depends. If you're talking about a free online test I can take to prove I have basic critical thinking skills, maybe, but that's still a slippery slope. As a legal adult with the right to consent to all sorts of things, I shouldn't have to prove my competence to someone else's satisfaction before I'm allowed autonomy to make my own personal decisions.

If what you're suggesting is a license that would cost money and/or a non-trivial amount of time to obtain, it's a nonstarter. That's how you create an unregulated black market and cause more harm than leaving the situation alone would have. See: the wars on drugs, prostitutes, and alcohol.

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noosphrlast Thursday at 6:46 AM

Are we at the level of needing a license to read a medical textbook too?

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roger_last Wednesday at 9:20 PM

If they pepper it with warnings and add safe guards, then I'm fine.

I think they can design it to minimize misinformation or at least blind trust.

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