The precise opposite is also true though; bans simply don’t work, period.
Yes, people should have the right to abortion. I think that there are some ethical issues surrounding things like sex-based abortions (which are a huge issue in Asian countries in particular), but that’s not really relevant to the US for the most part.
Yes, I support decriminalizing marijuana. And most drugs in general. I also support single-payer healthcare that would, among other things, make drug-addiction treatment available to anyone that wants it, since forced addiction treatment almost always fails, I also support other social programs–paid for with a highly progressive tax–that would reduce or eliminate most of the root causes for addiction.
I see no issues with drag shows. It’s not my thing, but I also don’t like hip-hop or historical romance films. So what? My preferences aren’t a rational basis for legal bans.
I think that immigration is complicated, mostly because we live in a capitalist society where the capital-owning class always seeks to reduce the value of labor in order to extract more value for themselves. Immigrants can usually be exploited to reduce labor costs, because undocumented migrants have very few legal protections against sub-minimum off-the-books wages or wage theft. I think that legal status and strong, universal labor unions would help with this, but I don’t know what the absolute solution would be.
You literally can not ban trans kids; kids are going to be transgender whether or not they’re permitted to express it. The entire idea of banning trans kids defies all logic and reason. At best you would be making trans children feel more isolated and alone, which would lead to higher rates of major mental illness and suicidality.
Banning dialogue on racism is a clear 1A violation.
Banning books by LGBTQ authors is a clear 1A violation, as is preventing minors from having access to them. You get into some grey area when it comes to pornography, but given that I could have checked out 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade from my local library as a minor, I don’t think most written works would realistically qualify as ‘lacking artistic or literary merit’.
And, finally -
Yeah, I 100% oppose gun bans, magazine bans, feature bans, and so on. I think the National Firearms Act of 1934 should be repealed as a clear 2A violation. I oppose the parts of the Firearm Owners Protection Act that prevent the transfer of new machine guns to citizens and resident aliens. The claim for gun bans is that they prevent violence; that’s stupid. The way to prevent violence isn’t the elimination of the tools, but the elimination of the cause. Democrats want to ban the tools, but don’t seriously attempt to address the root issues even when they have a supermajority in a state (see also: MA, NJ, NY, CA, etc.). Republicans neither care about the tools nor the causes.
The precise opposite is also true though; bans simply don’t work, period.
Yes, people should have the right to abortion. I think that there are some ethical issues surrounding things like sex-based abortions (which are a huge issue in Asian countries in particular), but that’s not really relevant to the US for the most part.
Yes, I support decriminalizing marijuana. And most drugs in general. I also support single-payer healthcare that would, among other things, make drug-addiction treatment available to anyone that wants it, since forced addiction treatment almost always fails, I also support other social programs–paid for with a highly progressive tax–that would reduce or eliminate most of the root causes for addiction.
I see no issues with drag shows. It’s not my thing, but I also don’t like hip-hop or historical romance films. So what? My preferences aren’t a rational basis for legal bans.
I think that immigration is complicated, mostly because we live in a capitalist society where the capital-owning class always seeks to reduce the value of labor in order to extract more value for themselves. Immigrants can usually be exploited to reduce labor costs, because undocumented migrants have very few legal protections against sub-minimum off-the-books wages or wage theft. I think that legal status and strong, universal labor unions would help with this, but I don’t know what the absolute solution would be.
You literally can not ban trans kids; kids are going to be transgender whether or not they’re permitted to express it. The entire idea of banning trans kids defies all logic and reason. At best you would be making trans children feel more isolated and alone, which would lead to higher rates of major mental illness and suicidality.
Banning dialogue on racism is a clear 1A violation.
Banning books by LGBTQ authors is a clear 1A violation, as is preventing minors from having access to them. You get into some grey area when it comes to pornography, but given that I could have checked out 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade from my local library as a minor, I don’t think most written works would realistically qualify as ‘lacking artistic or literary merit’.
And, finally -
Yeah, I 100% oppose gun bans, magazine bans, feature bans, and so on. I think the National Firearms Act of 1934 should be repealed as a clear 2A violation. I oppose the parts of the Firearm Owners Protection Act that prevent the transfer of new machine guns to citizens and resident aliens. The claim for gun bans is that they prevent violence; that’s stupid. The way to prevent violence isn’t the elimination of the tools, but the elimination of the cause. Democrats want to ban the tools, but don’t seriously attempt to address the root issues even when they have a supermajority in a state (see also: MA, NJ, NY, CA, etc.). Republicans neither care about the tools nor the causes.