• TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    16 days ago

    Sure but there is no way to implement a policy that makes people’s lives better that doesn’t initially go against the will of a ton of people who’d actually benefit down the line. It is never going to be a process where you first convince everyone who’d eventually use something to get on board with passing it, it’s always going to be you steam rolling that third of people polarized against it, and then when they find some occasion later to use the benefits you’ve passed, because “fuck it, they’re there anyway,” that the benefits become unretractable. There is no path to public welfare that lets you avoid paternalism and believing you know what’s better for some people than they do themselves.