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by scarface74 1113 days ago
It’s funny for someone to claim that we would give up our rights when you are begging the government to limit your choices instead of using your own free will to choose based on your priorities.

The EU is constantly taking away your right to choose which companies you want to use and it’s being celebrated

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> you are begging the government to limit your choices instead of using your own free will to choose based on your priorities

This is the "pro-crack-den" argument. Boring, boilerplate libertarian dogma. Not suitable for use in the real world.

So you’re not capable of choosing which websites you go to?
This is a non-sequitur response.
How so? Why do you need the government to tell you which products you can use? If you don’t like the policies of a particular company, don’t use their products.
> If you don’t like the policies of a particular company, don’t use their products.

So you're saying that the crack houses should be legal and open to all. Cool.

As opposed to the War on Drugs that just focused on minorities and the fact that cocaine has a lot lower penalties than the same amount of crack because of who uses it?

Or do you mean that when the drug epidemic hit “rural America” politicians started treating it “as a disease” instead of a moral failure when it was all about the “inner city” drug problem?

But either way, are you comparing going to a web page that stores data in the US that you can choose not to go to going to a crack house?