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Do you think it's ever ok for anything to be illegal? Every illegal thing represents the removal of a choice to do that thing.


Certainly I do. This one's a bad one though.


What makes it worse? So far, you said that the things that make it bad are 1) it's removing a choice and 2) causing citizens to get "equivalently" murdered.


It's worse because it causes a significant net increase in suffering and death relative to allowing people to do what they want on their own.

I didn't actually say that removing a choice is inherently bad, although often it is. I was explaining why I was holding the government responsible for that action.




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