Re: Speeding Cameras
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This was directed at the breathalyzer thing, so I can't tell your stance on speeding cameras. But the obvious difference between this and transfats/etc is that the government is taking away your ability to do previously lawful things. Speeding was never previously lawful.
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Slavery was previously lawful.
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Make a point.
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It should be fairly intuitive.
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I'm dumb. Spell it out, so I don't address issues you aren't arguing.
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Very wise on your part. At least you recognize that you're digging yourself a hole.
The point is that a particular item's "previously lawful" status is irrelevant in a moral evaluation.
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Don't be presumptious. You argue by analogy, and I'd rather not spend time addressing irrelevant examples and analogies that don't relate to my argument. Like this time.
And your comments about morality are not directed at my comments to John. John was getting annoyed by government intrusiveness restricting the things he can and cannot do in the name of saving lives. He mentioned examples where government was restricting your behavior where it already had not. Government is not making another restriction on your behavior here, it is already a restriction.
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