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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Yes, a stretch....
Again, I will say that this isn't stopping anyone from doing anything. It's a tax that helps offset the costs of certain behaviours. While they might package it up as "taxing smoking out of existence" or somesuch, I think such packaging is merely playing politics. I think otherwise that it is good public policy to raise funds from harmful activities to help pay for the negative consequences of such activities. |
Ah, but that is the rub. The need to protect someone from hearing offensive speech can not infringe on one's right to make that offensive speech.
Even if you have good intentions or even alternate intentions, it still can't infringe on unalienable rights. Again, right to end one's life? Yes? No? Otherwise, I'm arguing based on an unfair assumption of you.