taxonomy of legitimate government restrictions

[Advocate]

•banned - nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons, etc. which are fundamentally immoral to create or possess because they are intended to create indiscriminate harm
•restricted - large amounts of gunpowder, lsd, etc. which have inherently massive and/or indiscriminate harm potential
•regulated - drugs for addicts, weapons for children, etc. which have a unique danger in particular circumstances

[Impenitent]

banning pesticides?

-Imp

[Alexiev]

I'm not so sure discriminating.harm is all that superior to "indisriminate harm". Didn't the gas chambers of the holocaust discriminate.

Besides, how are these rules to be enforced?

P.s. If we ban pesticides lots of people will starve.

[Impenitent]

maybe we can just ban immoral people...

-Imp

[commonsense]

maybe we can just ban immoral people...

-Imp

Yes, but per what morality?

[promethean75]

Please refer to the first and second treatise of The GOM by one Nietzsche, Friedrich.

The Vonhamsonshmidt translation is the best if u can find it. If not, Kaufmann will suffice.

[promethean75]

That goddamn book very well may be the single greatest work in the philosophy of ethics ever written by man.