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Re:In Switzerland, it's now illegal to boil a live lobster by wildmusings on Sunday February 18, 2018 @01:45AM (#16404822)
My argument is the option you're omitting:

d) animals suffer, we should care, but we should not pass laws when their sole purpose is to prevent that suffering.

There is more to a society that what it compels at gunpoint. We can abhor behavior without proscribing it by law.

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Re:In Switzerland, it's now illegal to boil a live lobster by bufferout on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:07AM (#16404871)
What is law if not the ability to arrest controversy?
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Re:In Switzerland, it's now illegal to boil a live lobster by wildmusings on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:34AM (#16404931)
Are you arguing that the solution to all controversy is to pass a law? You are proposing to solve all problems at gunpoint.

What space for different conceptions of the good, for diversity of values and preferences, could exist in such a society?

You must have limiting principles for when we should resort to the remedy of the law. Perhaps yours are different than mine, but I doubt that you have none at all.

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