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quotemstryesterday at 3:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

So when does it stop? Would you support the state intervening in other situations in which people make choices of which you disapprove? Which choices would you, in your magnanimity, allow them to make?


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alt227yesterday at 3:06 PM

>Which peer choices would you, in your magnanimity, allow them to make?

Thats why we have voting and a legal system which builds upon previous laws. You and I do not need to decide where the line in the sand is drawn, the majority of the population does that via the political and legal framework society has created.

ceejayozyesterday at 3:03 PM

> Would you support the state intervening in other situations in which people make choices of which you disapprove?

Do you think "murder should be legal" is a popular position?