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Re:California is poised to ban prostitution-related loiterin... by bluescrn on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @07:40AM (#31834710)
But these days, we apparently can't trust 'society' to make responsible choices about anything.

Instead we're supposed to trust ever-bigger governments (controlled by ever-bigger corporate interests) to make those choices for us, and restrict those scary dangerous freedoms that people once had.

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Re:California is poised to ban prostitution-related loiterin... by falcolas on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:55AM (#31835430)
No, we can’t. If there’s one thing that’s proven true throughout history, it’s that enforced laws are the only things that can reign in the small percentage of bad actors that impact society as a whole.

Unless we want vigilantism. Which we really do not.

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