The entire concept of laws is insane delusional anti-materialism.

I’m not going to spend time on the inequities of punishment, the inefficacy of punishment (we’re still punishing people for murder! Tons of them! Every year! Can you name a culture where its generally legal? I fucking can’t!), the necessary selection and injustice of enforcement when trying to impose an often complex abstract ideal on reality through brute violence which is itself usually contradictory, the history of law as excuse, the inherent injustice of violence, or the problem brought up in this thread of variance between jurisdictions of law being used to exploit. Those are all issues that require volumes to fully understand or you’ve already picked a side on and its not worth arguing.

I’m just going to point out that if the goal was preventing bad thing, we would focus on training education infrastructure and constantly refined best practices to help us achieve the desired (lack of) result. That is what works. We know that’s what works, because in the places where there’s no power over others to be gained, or where the result is the most important to the powerful, that’s what we’ve done for over a century, arguably for millennia, across every border and language and nearly every religion. It is in fact the foundation of modern safety, infields as diverse as architecture and medicine, where procedures and design conventions are optimized to reduce room for error without reducing the agency of practitioners. Things like hoses for different parts of general anesthesia being different sizes and the switches being linked in an appropriate gear ratio, doctors signing areas to be operated on before a surgery, or railings being built over long falls anywhere a person the system cares about might ever stand.

If people –especially kids– getting where they’re going –especially school– safely and quickly were the priority, we would be building trains and getting cars off the use, with constant robust well maintained professional busses as a bridge to get us there. We don’t do that. We build more highways and more cars to the exclusion of all that.

The idea that anyone thinks laws are a good tool for avoiding bad outcomes is endlessly frustrating. They’re not in the top ten in use today, and that’s not even what they’re fucking for. That’s like arguing I should use a floppy silicone dildo to put a screw into a hole while we’re standing in the middle of a fully stocked hardware lending library. It was funny the first few times; now I just want to scream.

I miss multiplayer video games. I wish someone still made them.

What, in the past six years of hype bullshit, leads you to justify this profoundly charitable position?

Okay but we gotta use it. If we don’t use it we’re not cool.

He wouldnt understand responsibility if it fucked him in every orifice for like nine hours straight and read him to sleep while cuddling after.

Or choked him with his own intestines or whatever thing I’m sure wed all rather imagine happening to him that might not necessarily aid understanding in an easily legible way.

That’s the point of laws. You start with a concept everyone basically agrees with, then use it as a pretense to exploit whoever you want, and call it protection. Gradually fine-tune the targeting and expand the scope of the oppression, and often forget the original point.

Devil weed, everyone involved should be killed and the research burned.

So even if they weren’t a walking surveillance apocalypse, they’re an effective poor tax.

How does one come to ‘think’ like that? You’ve caught my morbid fascination.

Maybe the atf is a dangerous threat to the freedom and safety of everyone living here, and are they even actually doing anything about the dangers of alcohol tobacco or firearms? Because it feels like there’s nobody mitigating the risks on those.

Am I just misunderstanding? Is the atf’s job just to crack a beer light up a cigar and spray bullets around? Because, like, I get it. I have lived in Nevada, I’m pretty sure that’s what its for, but I don’t see why they’re a tax funded department of the federal government. Not if we don’t fund catgirls and weed.

I don’t see why we let people with criminal skull shapes be in charge of anything.

Maybe they mean in the same way trump is not himself ideologically fascist, he’s just doing it, and the moment he gets a call from mamdani calls him he’ll be a (longian) socialist until he leaves the room.

Or not.

Important reminder: you are not ‘supporting artists’ when you pay for media.

I live in Los Angeles. I know a lot of art gays. The ones who teach art class and pull down that ‘public school teacher’ money rent rooms to the ones who work on films with ten figure budgets.

You do not support artists. You fund their exploitation.

I support artists, because I tip cash when I buy coffee.

So while you Jack yourself off about ‘supporting artists’ by voting with your wallet, I’m gonna use one of those flosser things to get their pubic hair out of my teeth while we look at my favorite Linux ISO’s together.