My other heuristic is, folks shouldn't ask the government to ban something if they don't trust the government to enforce the ban fairly after the worst of their political opponents come into power.
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I like this one a lot better than the first. "Please figure out how to generalize this well, I'm not an expert" seems like a legitimate request. For example: "Please ban people dumping pollution into the rivers and air and such" seems like a fine request.
Fair point, sort of -- but there's no constitutional right to pollute....
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And here I thought you were just espousing some general principles, not talking about a specific issue ;)
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I was also thinking about censorship issues, 'hate speech', etc.
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