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> I am one such, obviously.

I declare you’re not. I need to protect you from yourself.





Well, I suppose it will rest on our ability in society to assert our will then. But for all the people who think this tech is too dangerous for people to use surely we can agree that if they think so, protecting them from it is something they should find gratifying.

The Amish got at least one thing right: sometimes the drawbacks of a technology do outweigh the benefits.

And so they deny themselves it. Here the ones who want it denied want to deny others it. Surely the simple thing is to deny it to those who think it’s bad and to allow it for those who think it’s good.

Then we can explore the broader bans.


"Well, I have the bigger gun so you don't get rights" is monstrous.

“I don’t want something so we should all be denied it” is definitely worse than my system of allowing people who can handle things to be allowed them.



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