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> I think you should use your logic to campaign for legislation or regulation, not try to force people by applying pain.

Campaigning for legislation or regulation is trying to force people through the use of the government's monopoly on physical violence. How is that less harmful than expressing negative judgment and hoping that someone feels sufficiently bad about being judged that they change their actions?

Your argument seems to be that making someone feel bad is worse than physically harming them.




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