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The difference is in my example you're preventing someone from using a service that someone agreed to provide for an agreed upon price.

Your example is a hand-wavy hypothetical about how allowing some service impacts others by second and third order effects by what could be there instead.

Do you see the difference?

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The hand-wavy hypotheticals were there in both of our posts.

And where you said "It's none of your business what 10% of people are doing. I don't know how it degrades quality of life" you were also explicitly hand-waving away the costs that these businesses impose on those not directly involved in the transactions.

So yes, in my post I was at least considering these costs. In your post, you were choosing to wave them away as inconsequential. I certainly do see the difference.

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