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My Mom said it to me with simpler terms when i was little... "we only have laws because of the assholes"
Plato put it like this in his "Laws": “Laws are made to instruct the good, and in the hope that there may be no need of them; also to control the bad, whose hardness of heart will not be hindered from crime.”
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What is the appropriate middle though? Think about alcohol culture. Should we ban beer commercials on TV? Only allow beer commercials with talking frogs rather than attractive young people having fun?
I'm honestly baffled over why beer commercials are considered socially acceptable - but then again I think that advertising (in our modern interconnected world) only ever serves to drive overconsumption. If you want a beer - you go to the bevy and pick out a beer you'd enjoy... if I'm watching TV and the TV tries to make me want a beer - that's not a good thing. Good advertising[1] is limited to making sure your prod…
I mean, ideally we could allocate all the capital we put into manufacturing, selling, and consuming beer into fitness or math education or something more harmonious with wellness and human achievement; but hey, plenty of great scientists and inventors love beer.
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Please point out where I argued that that was protected speech. I think you’ll find that you’ve made up my argument out of whole cloth, which is quite tiresome.
Facebook: willingly hosts groups that plan and enact violence. You: It's a matter of free speech. Me: Point out that people have been killed. You: I didn't say it was free speech. Like, what do you think people are mad at Facebook over if not all the people dying from the misinformation and violence coming from them?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/technology/facebook-whist...