Maybe one of the reasons I feel less threatened by the right than the left is that it feels like it's much easier to violate the bad laws implemented by the right than it is the bad laws implemented by the left
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My friends were doin drugs like weed and psychedelics even when they were illegal. You can at least manage to do abortions even when illegal, you can still have romantic relationships with the same gender (tho you can't get married), you can do sex work under the radar. BUT
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Want to run a business without a license? Want to not pay taxes? Want to hire employees without bundling their healthcare in to it too? These things all feel much more dangerous, they leave paper trails, and way more points of weakness for other people noticing and reporting you
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Running a business w/o a license? well, i can understand that but, not wanting to pay taxes? not bundling workers healthcare? how could it be a problem that people can't do that?
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If the right wants to ban you using drugs, you can still do drugs; if the left wants to raise taxes, you... have to pay taxes. Regardless if you agree/disagree with each move, the point is that one is harder to violate than the other.
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I never really considered taxes, licences and regulations as necessarily left wing?
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I thought left usually wants to raise taxes and have more licensing/regulation on businesses, e.g. trying to make uber class its contractors as employees
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They might feel more dangerous but are they factually more dangerous? I don't know the answers to each situation but I'd try to look for the facts to support or discredit the feelings.
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Great point yeah; it's possible that it's actually not that dangerous to break the left-leaning laws, but anecdotally it feels like it's more. Like when I got into sex work my escort friend was like "I break the law to do sex work but I don't dare try to avoid paying taxes"
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Seems to me the common factor in the first set is arguable self harm but negligible harm to others and for the latter set it's the reverse, so it sort of stands to reason that wider society would punish you more for the latter.
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This probably relates to the religious (traditionally) or conservative right's presumed moral concern over actions even when they do not ostensibly harm society per se
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Yeah, it's easier to destroy yourself than it is to destroy others lifes, which is a good thing.
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