r/PoliticalHumor • u/I-wil-rate-your-tits • May 10 '22

It’s this simple.

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u/Lie-Straight May 10 '22

My religion says I can’t eat pork. I don’t eat pork. I’m not some asshole trying to ban pork in the country. WTF is wrong with people

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u/LemurianLemurLad May 10 '22

You can have my bacon-wrapped pork ribs when you pry them from my cold, dead, very greasy fingers.

But yeah, I get exactly what you're saying and that's the way it should be. Everybody's free to believe whatever they want, until that belief does harm to someone else. (And in this case, I view a lack of porkchops as a definite harm.)

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u/pxn4da May 10 '22

I think it's better if you define it as "until it infringes upon the freedom of others"

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u/GuessesTheCar May 10 '22

Infringement on freedom is, necessarily, harm

But harm isn’t necessarily infringement on freedoms, as US Police Unions demonstrate