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Because the free market is very slow, and it's a greater total harm.

Would you rather your child learned which items are hot by scarring themselves each time?

So, we the people are essentially children and the state is the parent? Nice metaphor, you just proved my point that the state should not interfere.

That analogy makes no sense, and your view of consumers and individuals as children is patronizing.

Free markets also include the spread of information and signaling. People can learn from the mistakes from others. It is precisely in a free market where the information gets to be spread out the quickest.

I did not find the above comment patronizing.

Some types of signaling are best to be learned before it becomes a problem. Like killing.

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