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by mock-possum 1080 days ago
Right, but - I have never engaged in domestic abuse. I have never caused a car accident. I have never had a work accident. And yet, I drink daily.

Why should my own enjoyment of life be curtailed, simply because others can't behave themselves? That would be punishing me for others' failings, and that is unjust.
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AwaAwa 1080 days ago
Individual freedom is out. Communal reins are in.

Unless you missed the coercion in the last decade, and more recently in the last three years.

And somehow there will always be someone that tries to justify the ever slippery, 'for the greater good'.

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Eddy_Viscosity2 1080 days ago
Not that agree with prohibition, I don't; but the general answer to your question is because that's how society works. Sometime you have to give something up because in net in makes things better overall.
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