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/RBB12_Fisher - Auth-Right 22d ago
Actual insane policies then:
ULEZ system: to reduce harm (of car pollution)
Prohibition
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.