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> Most people would think an entire town deciding to exclude minorities is morally repugnant What? I'm not saying I don't. It's just irrelevant to the issue. > shouldn't be allowed…

"This"? People in a country or region deciding over that country or region? What do you suggest instead?

> What if an entire town decides they don't want to allow minorities to live there? Yes, what if they do? Should they not get to decide because they might haver the wrong opinion? …

> Why do the rights of the local people trump the rights of people from "elsewhere"? On at least some level, I find it reasonable that the people who live in a certain place decide…

> the farm lobby can paradoxically be incentivized to vote for housing regulation Why is it paradoxical? Because they could otherwise have more buyers of their products?

> How much right should I have to control what other people do because it might bother me? That's a valid question for every law or other governmental decision. But we can think of…

I'm not sure what you mean. You don't have to build 50-story buildings just because you have created a demand for them.

> If there's no market for them, they won't get built. That's something else, isn't it? The people who already live there might not want 50-story buildings, even if there are other…

> That's the rub That might be part of it, but it's not exactly obvious that you'd want to live in a place with 50-story buildings either.

Cool! I've been wondering if there is a feed of only the good stuff. If HN itself doesn't provide one, maybe there should be a separate site that does that filtering. I was thinkin…

I recently returned to HN, having read it a little a few years back. I remembered it as a low-volume, high-quality feed, where I was hesitant to speak, because all the other commen…

Because I think you shouldn't take deciding what other people are allowed to do lightly. Such things should only be done in extreme cases, like self defense or, perhaps, to prohibi…

> Do you wish to live in a human society? As far as I can see, that is orthogonal to the issue at hand. > all this law does is to impose the costs on those who incur it. We might c…

> deny economic coercion applies when e.g a bank charges overdraft or late fees no matter how ludicrous. That would depend entirely on whether the bank and its customer had agreed …

Yes, deciding what others are allowed to do is something I am morally uncomfortable with. That is not to say that I have come up with something else that is not also questionable. …

I'm trying to nail down what the actual issue of debate is, or should be. You are merely sharing your opinion on that issue. That is fine, but beside the point I was getting at.

I am confused. You seem to be saying that the law had negative consequences for you and that you therefore think the cost needs to be increased to correct you into the intended beh…

> many people needed to experience the enforcement in order to be convinced of the benefits of changing their habits. So, do you mean that these people considered the outcome uncer…

In both cases, the core of the matter is exposing oneself to danger for some higher cause.

> Ireland did something similar years ago and the results were incredible. An almost overnight transformation of the cleanliness of the cities and countryside. Nobody would like to…

What about going after the tossing instead?

Me too!

What do you mean by "worked well"? What scenario would have had you conclude that it did not work well?

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