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by cweagans
1288 days ago
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> I definately think the upsides of freetrade out weigh the downsides Why? Why is it better to actively facilitate the act of paying an assassin than it is to not do that? > if we lived in a society where all flow of money goes through some govement entity Lovely strawman you've built there. However, I don't think I claimed that all money should flow through some government entity. For the record, I don't think it should. Making the act of paying for an assassination illegal != making some government entity responsible for the flow of all money. Holding both the assassin and the payer responsible for either killing somebody or conspiring to kill somebody doesn't seem unreasonable to me. > we would be in reality some button presses away from Orwell style dystopia. [citation needed] go work in government and then tell me that anything is "some button presses away" from anything else. |
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for assassinations, may be we currently all agree that it isn't good to allow it to happen. However, that is only just an extreme example, for which it is something most people would agree should be illegal. But what about other actions?
Killing the ability to transact, regardless of the subject of a transaction, is detrimental to change, and entrenches existing powers/authority. These existing authority should not feel safe implementing new laws, if there are ways that could circumvent them. This makes the authority remain honest, and only implement laws that would have popular support.