alt Hacker News>For the same reason your taxes pay for schools even when you don't have kids.
But I have benefited from public education. Me paying for someone else's education in return is fair.
>Because we live in a society.
"Because we live in a society" is a phrase flexible enough that it can be used to justify anything, including outright theft: "we live in a society; us taking your stuff is the price you have been chosen to pay for your continued belonging". Want to try a little harder?
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Good God.
After reading this thread -
You are forced to pay to attest your age, because as a society we have decided not to, or are unable to, end social media firms and porn sites.
At the same time, we have decided that the harms that occur to kids and teens need to be mitigated.
You have convinced me that there are in fact no differences between things, and that protecting children from adult content is indistinguishable from all other goals, and therefore I was foolish to advocate for it.
I stand humbly corrected.