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So should we now pass laws that outlaw everything that can cause you harm - cigarettes? Alcohol? Gambling? Sugar? Do you also support the “war on drugs”?

How much power do you want to give the government because you are incapable of making your own decisions?




This is a very silly straw man argument, and I'm getting whiplash from the continual changes of topic in search of a valid point.


How so? The contention was that the government should protect intelligent adults because they are too dumb to use their own judgment. But adults are intelligent enough to use alcohol in responsible way (which statistically is clearly not the case), but not intelligent enough to use a social media platform?




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