Re:Burrito Now, Pay Later
by cryptonector on Sunday May 11, 2025 @11:36PM
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There is "protecting them from themselves" and then there is "protecting them from loan sharks who predate on their stupidity".
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I don't quite understand the full argument that you are trying to make. You seem to assume that it is more justified to "protect someone from themselves" than to "protect stupid people from loan sharks", and that the situation at hand resembles the latter more than the former.
To me the justifiability of these two imperatives seem to be reversed. But to the extent that "protecting stupid people from loan sharks" is unjustified, we also think that we should "protect weak people from robbers and bandits", and protect people from frauds.
Re:Burrito Now, Pay Later
by cryptonector on Monday May 12, 2025 @12:15AM
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> You seem to assume that it is more justified to "protect someone from themselves" than to "protect stupid people from loan sharks", and that the situation at hand resembles the latter more than the former.
I meant the opposite.