"You can’t have freedoms without liberties," - don't you mean without limits?
Most laws are specifications of harms, and "just" punishment for those convicted of doing harm. Tho there are lots of victimless crimes where one or both of the consenting adults is considered the victim of their own decision, like drugs or prostitution.
"You can’t have freedoms without liberties," - don't you mean without limits?
Most laws are specifications of harms, and "just" punishment for those convicted of doing harm. Tho there are lots of victimless crimes where one or both of the consenting adults is considered the victim of their own decision, like drugs or prostitution.
Drug addition harms the addict. Drug legalization increases addiction. Drug laws increase criminal behavior, corruption, gang violence; but decrease harmful addition.
Should we have drug laws? Good arguments both ways.
(One of the few areas my wife and I disagree; with me accepting legalization and more harmful addiction.)
"You can’t have freedoms without liberties," - don't you mean without limits?
Most laws are specifications of harms, and "just" punishment for those convicted of doing harm. Tho there are lots of victimless crimes where one or both of the consenting adults is considered the victim of their own decision, like drugs or prostitution.
Drug addition harms the addict. Drug legalization increases addiction. Drug laws increase criminal behavior, corruption, gang violence; but decrease harmful addition.
Should we have drug laws? Good arguments both ways.
(One of the few areas my wife and I disagree; with me accepting legalization and more harmful addiction.)
Liberties are limits to freedoms. “Free from” means that a freedom cannot impede upon something, which is a liberty.
It’s hard-baked into the US constitution, yet not many people seem to understand that.