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Your reasoning is that people are stupid and therefore you should manipulate them 'for their own good' because they have no self-agency and self-responsibility.

Needless to say, people who think like this make terrible dictators when given the chance.




You could can easily apply this logic to say "we should revoke laws that make it illegal to drive without a seat belt", or dozens of other examples.

Humans are notorious for thinking "I'm in a real hurry, I'll leave the safety system off because I likely won't get hurt". We know that laws, rules and protocols with enforcement and negative consequences are required in order to make humans act safely at scale.


It's a good thing I did not propose that I become Supreme Dictator Strawman.




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