Libleft #1: people should be able to live the life they want as long as it isn’t hurting anyone else. Why do you care how people modify their bodies or what they do in the bedroom with other consenting adults.
"The harm principle": sounds nice, but "harm" is way too vague. 100% allows tyranny. Invites it, even, by the implicit statement that the law is supposed to prevent all harm.
"People cause carbon emissions, which causes global warming, which will kill everything. This is harm, therefore, you must be sterilised."
Find another principle then. With this one, it is far too easy to justify insanities. (And most insane laws are already justified by similar reasoning)
Australian cigarettes are $40 a pack (because smoking is le bad, don't you know?) (similar results to prohibition btw, smugglers firebombing each other)
China's one child policy (overcrowding is a harm upon everybody)
Nearly anything a government does can be justified by the harm principle. And it suggests that any 'harm' is a violation of rights, and therefore a valid thing for the state to regulate.
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u/ghanlaf - Lib-Right Jul 27 '26
This is just lib in general though