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points by soerxpso 4 days ago | 0 comments

Please remain amenable to that argument when it's made about abortion, gay marriage, etc, then. There are a variety of transactions people want to arbitrarily regulate based on what they think is "obviously a net bad" and you shouldn't assume that your personal taste is going to be the one catered to by government forever.

[–] cowlevel 4 days ago

It's not an argument in itself, it's just rejecting a counter-argument. The opposite of "it's never okay for the government to interfere in voluntary transactions" isn't "the government must always interfere", it's "sometimes it's okay for the government to interfere"

[–] soerxpso 4 days ago

Nothing distinguishes your "I want the government to ban this because I think it's icky" from anyone else's. It absolutely is the same argument.

[–] cowlevel 3 days ago

You seem to be rejecting the premise that different things are different. If someone believes that cleaning chemicals should be locked up in supermarkets for child safety, that doesn't mean they believe bread should be locked up in supermarkets. Maybe they do, maybe they don't.