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Subjective guidelines lead to subjective outcomes.

“Responsibility” and “respect” are vague ideas with no objective measure of what is allowed or not allowed. If society agrees we must stop something, the only way to do this is with specific, written law. Not shifting, vague moral platitudes.

Over-regulation is just another way to say “poorly constructed law.” We need to write better laws (or change the process for writing them if they are consistently mis-representing our intentions), not less laws.



I'm not against laws. I'm against the mentality of "if it's not covered by the law then it's A OK."




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