Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o...
by Mandatum on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:40PM
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I think we have to be careful because those laws can be wielded by dickheads. See: every abuse of power.
That's a fallacy in itself, however I think there's definitely some merit to both sides here.
Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o...
by aww_dang on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:00AM
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There's a distinction between a voluntary practice and a compulsory practice. The distinction centers around individuals being compelled by violence. The kind thing to do would be to minimize our use of compulsion as much as pragmatically possible.
>Can we kindly stop using hyperbole... anti-maskers have almost certainly killed more Americans
In this same fantasy universe jack-booted government thugs are beating up people who don’t wear seat belts or who mislabel the nutritional contents on a package of cheese, except that’s just not what ever actually happens in the real world. These kinds of laws can be appropriate when they make society better for us all.
To that point, anti-maskers have almost certainly killed more Americans at this point than terrorists could ever have hoped to. You might consider that when attempting to understand why people are seemingly so hard-pressed to get laws requiring their countrymen (and women) to do the literal bare minimum to protect the lives of their neighbors.