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What are you going to suggest next, Dunedan? That we allow minors to buy cigarettes and alcohol?
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The very existence of laws against such is ridiculous. Prevention of such is a matter for the minor in question and their parents, not for an entity (the State) which has proven itself competent in regards to children only insofar as it is unusually adept at killing them.
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What threat of violence are you talking about?
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The part where if you don't do what the State says, they can use violence against you. Or did you think all those guns were just for looking cool?
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Since when are fines and court dates seen as violence?
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Since they are enforced by the threat of violence; ie "do as you're told or you'll be imprisoned or shot." This despite the fact that earning a fine and a date in court requires only that you be doing someone which some agent of the State finds personally distasteful (driving too fast, smoking the wrong herbs, or painting your house the wrong colour), an act in which nobody was harmed or defrauded.
Again, did you think all those guns were just for looks?