[bdisl]

He’s right. You can see it every time people vote to restrict their individual freedoms, which in the west doesn’t stop happening.

[dfxm12]

Thanks in part, no doubt, to massive funding from Peter Thiel (and of course others) on issues/candidates that lead to restricting freedom.

[Y-bar]

I have knowingly voted for less freedoms for myself multiple times and I know it, for example I have voted:

- to have less freedom to pollute the environment.

- to have less freedom where I am able to defraud my customers.

- to have less freedom to have less ability to lie about medical "benefits" of fake cures.

I am also a big proponent of freedom-limiting legislation like GDPR which prevents myself and my employer from secretly collecting and processing your personal information.

And I am currently part of the "Stop Killing Games" initiative which will hopefully restrict the freedom of games companies to sunset and withdraw purchases without a clear roadmap or similar remedy.

[bdisl]

That is a lot of typing for a massive strawman that is more likely to belong in Reddit than here.

[Y-bar]

I understood your comment as restricting my own freedoms was a fully bad thing, and I therefore tried to provide examples of positive freedoms being afforded to you by restricting my own negative freedoms.

Explain why that is a straw-man.

[shazbotter]

It's not, you refuted their obviously poorly constructed argument directly. They just have an ideological axe to grind.