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nobspeople
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Laws too far?

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Laws banning abortion.
Laws saying who can and can't get married.
Laws banning the treatment of hormone blockers for non-adults (though I thought in the USA adult status was 18, not 19?).

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory ... s-84027438

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Should people be allowed to live their own lives so long as it doesn't negatively impact others?
At what point do these types of laws 'go too far'?
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Re: Laws too far?

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nobspeople wrote: Tue Apr 12, 2022 11:40 am Should people be allowed to live their own lives so long as it doesn't negatively impact others?
Of course. The problem is actually how much negative impact on others do you allow. And who you define as another worthy of protection. We allow harm to others all the time. We allow people to own guns and sometimes they shoot people. We allow people to have sex, and spread STDs. We allow people to breed and breed and breed, killing the planet and certainly hurting others. The problem isn't intrusive laws, but the fact that sometimes we simply allow people to hurt and negatively impact others, and now people can't assess whether something hurts people badly enough that it ought to be illegal, because nobody made any guidelines about it.

There are very few intrusive laws. Your examples largely qualify. People have legitimate concerns about whether a fertilised cell is a person worthy of protection and whether parents may be foisting what is essentially castration on their children, but the marriage one I can't see a counter to.

The problem, even with intrusive laws, is people can't see when a law is intrusive, causing harm for no benefit, because we sometimes allow people to cause harm to others for no benefit and the law protects it.

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