One could argue that teaching people to live responsibly and punishing them when they fail is protecting them from themselves.
By that logic, owning a nuke doesn't infringe on anyone's freedom either. Would you be in favour of everyone having their own nukes?
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Indeed it doesnt. "Nukes" is a rather extreme argument though isn't it. I don't think people should own nukes and the issue is, for me, accountability and justifiability not that it's a weapon. The personal use of nukes isn't justifiable. [YET].
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One could also argue that allowing all humans the freedom to communicate online is pitentially as destabilizing as nukes. Total uninhibited connectivity leads to massive increases in existential risk. Shall we ban the Internet? These arguments are not practical.
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