smaller governed body = fewer people feel "left out", faster feedback loops, greater participation per person, also you can move states if you don't like it
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Replying to @simpolism @danlistensto
At the same time, vastly more likely to have more abuse of human rights and things that shouldn't be legal, I'd imagine.
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why would a smaller government entail more abuse of human rights? and "shouldn't be legal" is, like, your opinion man
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Replying to @simpolism @danlistensto
I mean, if you look at states right now, like half of them allow you to marry a 3 year old and legally have intercourse with them. Like, sure, "morality is subjective" but that shit's way too young.
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maybe their communities have ways of preventing child abuse that don't rely on laws, and they don't want to unnecessarily involve the government in their lives?
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Replying to @simpolism @danlistensto
There're so many papers on how child rape permanently scars children that it's more or less objective that something like "No, you can't have sex with a three year old" is a necessary law.
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Making something a law changes how people interact with it. In the worst case, people say "well, it's the government's responsibility now, so we don't have to worry about having strong community norms against it, we can just call the police on people!"
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The "thing is definitely bad therefore we must make a law against it" thought process almost certainly results in worse societal outcomes at least some of the time. It almost certainly opens up "game-able" holes in the law which can be abused.
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Replying to @simpolism @danlistensto
It's not "the thing is most definitely bad and therefore we need a law," it's "This harms small people who don't have full human rights and can't vote."
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so does elementary school, television, and coca-cola look, I understand there are different degrees of badness, but not everything is appropriate to try and legislate away
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and this is a weird hypothetical. like, is there actually an instance of widespread child rape as a culturally accepted thing?
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