Allowing anyone to own guns is not simply an exercise in freedom, because the freedom to own a gun places severe restrictions on the lives of everyone who gets shot as a result, and on the lives of everyone who must impede their own lifestyles to mitigate such a risk.
Whatever you want to call it, it still requires the state's infringement of the individual's autonomy. So we both agree that violating autonomy is crucial to addressing this problem, we only disagree on the precise extent.
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I think we disagree on the point at which violations of autonomy by state actors are warranted. I don’t think systems predicated upon the top-down management of human behavior works for the same reasons economies can’t be managed that way: it doesn’t scale and leads to tyranny.
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But this is the thing: you advocate punishing people for not obeying laws, yet this is top-down management of behaviour. Freedom is essential to prosperity, but it isn't linear; there reaches a point at which it becomes zero-sum. And let's not forget, Nature is also a tyranny.
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