Originally Posted By: robertcope
Originally Posted By: Phishin
But I also think it should be free choice.
The problem is that one person's bad choice impacts everyone else in society in this case.
robert
So what!!!! People do all kinds of stupid things everyday that negatively impacts our society as a whole. People who steal (the price of goods goes up), people who live off welfare (our taxes increase), people who do drugs (the cost of them in our population is staggering), etc. etc.
The negative impact that people's choices have on our collective society is the price we pay for freedom. You can't eliminate people's ability to hurt a society without taking away all their freedoms and choices. But to be fair, it's the same freedom of choice that also has sooooooooooo many positive ramifications as well.
There are a few negatives that can't be avoided with having freedom of choice, but they are buried under the mountain of positive ones.
Originally Posted By: Phishin
But I also think it should be free choice.
The problem is that one person's bad choice impacts everyone else in society in this case.
robert
So what!!!! People do all kinds of stupid things everyday that negatively impacts our society as a whole. People who steal (the price of goods goes up), people who live off welfare (our taxes increase), people who do drugs (the cost of them in our population is staggering), etc. etc.
The negative impact that people's choices have on our collective society is the price we pay for freedom. You can't eliminate people's ability to hurt a society without taking away all their freedoms and choices. But to be fair, it's the same freedom of choice that also has sooooooooooo many positive ramifications as well.
There are a few negatives that can't be avoided with having freedom of choice, but they are buried under the mountain of positive ones.