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You waste too much. What other people do is not your business.

> You waste too much.

You have no information about how much waste they produce.

> What other people do is not your business.

We cant comment that grocery stores throw out too much food because it’s not our business?

You can't comment on what sovereign individuals, who have no voluntary contractual obligation to you, do with their private property. That's because you have no ownership over their physical flesh. They own 100% of their body.

A grocery store is not a person. And besides that, laws and regulations exist specifically to restrict what people are able to do. Nobody is entirely sovereign. Sure, if you discover an island and you decide to live there, maybe you’re sovereign and can act however you want. But we live in a collective. That’s just the way it works.

These rights are inalienable. They are not derived by permission from a collective.

Which rights? The right to build a tall fence in your yard? To install electrical in a house however you please? Expose your genitals in public?

The right of self ownership. You are not entitled to control the flesh of another person.

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