We carefully place limits for things like race. However those are narrow things.
> That maternity leave... I wonder how much work gets done.
That is one reason companies don't mandate everything (although it is mandated): companies with good maternity leave policies are more attractive to potential employees. This is more valuable than the time lost.
Oof, that isn't even close to what the civil rights act was designed to address. Conflating this with that would not go the way you'd likely want.
> This is more valuable than the time lost.
Something so true that it has to be compelled by law!
Just because it is compelled by law doesn't mean it has to be. My company gives me paternity leave which isn't compelled by law, so I'm sure they would give maternity leave even without the law.
Of course, legislative solutions are increasingly impossible in some parts of the world. This is the reason we're relying on companies to make this call.
As sennight said, that is a lie. The one person who died violently was one of the rioters, an unarmed woman who was shot by Capitol Police. Four other rioters died of natural causes around the time of the riot.
(And before you mention him, Officer Sicknick did not die from being hit by a fire extinguisher because that never happened (<https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brian-sicknick-fire-exting...>). He died of a stroke which the autopsy found no connection with the riot (<https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/19/brian-sickn...>). And yes, the autopsy also specifically checked—and did not find evidence—for a connection between the stroke and pepper spray.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Brian_Sicknick#D.C._m...
>Diaz told the Washington Post that there was no evidence that Sicknick had an allergic reaction to chemicals or was otherwise injured, but stated that "all that transpired played a role in his condition."
>Dr. Cyril Wecht, a forensic pathologist, said that Sicknick's manner of death could have been classified as accidental, a homicide, or undetermined.
It sure would be a strange coincidence if his stroke was entirely unrelated as you say.
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That's literally the definition of freedom.
The government exists to provide a safe framework to protect property and to provide for the common defense for people to live free and make thier own choices.
Politics is the allocation of scarce resources; so by definition it exhibits preferences in those allocations, whether the whim of a tyrant, an iron law of utility, or a social contract.
Guns versus butter is the toy example from macroeconomics 101, but absolutely government is the net sum of its opportunity costs.