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[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bro, that's exactly what liberals want.

The government is a tool to ensure the good will, safety, and prosperity of the people. What we can't achieve on our own gets done through the collective power of the government.

Liberals aren't trying to force government on people, they're trying to ensure that the rights of everyone take precedent over someone's perceived "right" to discriminate.

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you consider a business employing people to mutually ageed standards moral?

[–] riskable@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Business aren't moral entities and it should never be assumed that they will act as such. In fact, the basis by which one should assume a business will operate is on profits and profits alone.

Therefore, if you want to make business behave in any sort of moral fashion their behavior must be regulated and businesses with a history of societal harm must be highly regulated.

Based on these truths one must view with a highly skeptical eye anyone who wishes to broadly remove regulations without specificities as to which ones they want to remove and why the regulation is unnecessary. The belief that regulations are bad--generally speaking--is an inherently unethical and immoral position.

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. So literally using police to force shit is just bros being bros. Hiring someone to paint your fence, oppression. Got it.