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"My fellow citizens getting lead-free water 'for free'? Over their dead bodies!"
Your better than thou attitude is certainly noticed and 100% not earned from an argument strength perspective or from an EU “no lead pipes” perspective.
But in this case banning them means preventing their use.
Europe varies quite a bit. In 1999: “Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Portugal, and Belgium all had higher percentages of lead lines ranging between 15% and 51%. Germany, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands had between 3% and 9%, while Denmark and Greece had less than 1%”
Is this the next generation of anti-vax dogma? That lead pipes are actually good?
Unless I install the pipes personally, it's someone else's actions that are detrimentally impacting my life, isn't it?
> I think your disdain of freedom of choice is pretty pathetic and troubling
What I have disdain for is the pathetic and troubling idea that we are somehow, isolated individuals whose choices impact no-one else, and not in an interdependent society.