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Yes, if everyone did everything correctly every time in perpetuity, we wouldn’t need laws. Very astute observation.

Unfortunately, things haven’t worked out that way so far.

Oh no, some people are terrible at cooking. Better ban cooking without a license. Giving your neighbor a home baked pie is now a crime unless you're a licensed pastry chef.

That’s correct. We only need one law. Restaurant food poisoned you? NAP violation.

Even that might be too much. As you’ve insightfully illustrated, 1 law is a slippery slope to infinite laws. Next thing you know we need a license to toast bread in our own damn toasters.

i mean, we know people are terrible at driving, so we give them license.

We know poeople are terrible with guns so we...um..try to protect their freedom to be terrible.

These arguments are about values not control gates.

We don't need most laws.

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