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Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a ... by feet on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:07PM (#33627690)
See, with rugged individualism the consumer needs to be on the watch for the brands that might kill them and just vote with their wallet. Why would we regulate something when the free market will do the regulating?

This parent was not exercising their responsibility as an individual to watch out for anything and everything that might hurt their child, in the US that is illegal because the free market ideology rules all.

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Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a ... by vagrantJin on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @03:30PM (#33630066)
What on earth are you going on about?

Please elaborate.

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Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a ... by feet on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @03:38PM (#33630176)
It's commentary about attacking symptoms rather than the root cause of the problem based around the flawed "choice of the individual" and "rugged American individualism" ideologies present in the US.

Cops think the neighborhood is dangerous for kids because of sex trafficking? Arrest parents for allowing kids outside instead of stopping the sex trafficking.

Consumers get harmed and workers get taken advantage of by corporations? Vote with your wallet instead of actually regulating companies.

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