rchive

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[–] rchive@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

We can talk about giving up our guns when the cops and government give up theirs

Amen to that.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And that's the other edge of the double edged sword. If you say, "people with known mental health problems lose certain rights, even temporarily," some portion of people with those problems will just fight harder to keep them unknown, foregoing help in the process. It's just like how when certain places pass laws prohibiting having sex when you know you have an STD, some people just stop getting checked so they don't "know" they have an STD.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee -4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I hear calls for things like Red Flag Laws from conservatives pretty often, actually.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Calls for gun prohibition just increase funding for Republicans.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee -4 points 2 years ago (9 children)

It would almost certainly reduce the number of guns out there, I don't think anyone would dispute that. Alcohol prohibition reduced the amount of alcohol and the number of consumers by a huge amount. What people would argue, however, is that Prohibition made the alcohol that was out there much more dangerous. They'd also argue that gun prohibition would reduce formerly legal owners by (made up numbers) 90% while only reducing already prohibited owners by 10%. Is that a net gain or a net loss?

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

For the drugs, really successful. Drugs are doing great! Lol

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why do they have different standards, anyway? A vehicle is a vehicle, sort of, when it comes to emissions.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They also want to be able to support their families by making money through the Obsidian application, which could be more difficult in an open source environment.

This is the only one that seems really legit to me. That and the other commenter that said open source is more work, which is probably true, and if you're not getting benefit it could be a net loss.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Both pro-life and pro-choice are sanitized descriptions of the beliefs they refer to. Both movements contain people that believe completely insane things on the topic, like that women or doctors should be imprisoned or worse for making a certain difficult health choice, or that unborn children aren't really people until they're on a particular side of their mother's vagina.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

My electricity provider shuts off my power if I don't pay, obviously physical laws of electricity allow at least that much.

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