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daiva's avatar

The insufferable (yeah, intended) schafers of this world always know what’s best for you and the next gal yonder, and never hesitate to make their super-duper ‘insights’ known 😤 🤬

Lawmaking sure could do worse than adopt the primum non nocere maxim. Imagine if when a new law is proposed, first thing to be examined were what harm it would do if misapplied/abused. All its supposed—purported might be a better word—benefits come second.

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Nick Russo's avatar

I'm reminded of a passage from Crime and Punishment:

"Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!"

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