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You can’t go running around with feces all over your body and hug strangers, OP, it’s not hygienic.

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Prove it

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Source?

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Bioterrorism covers this pretty well.

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Did you read the meme though?

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Yes, and when you Google Bioterrorism you’ll get all the justifications as to why you shouldn’t.

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Just existing is not a crime, even if you’re just casually spreading disease

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Boom. Justification. OP’s request is satisfied.

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You fool, I’m not a representative of the government. Ha, request not satisfied.

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US Govt: Y’all shoot a lot of people. Let’s slow this down a bit. Some people: how about I shoot you!?

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Justifications are easy, though.

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Less so when you have to persuade other people that the justification is valid.

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Isnt the meme basically “prove my justifications are invalid, cause I feel I’m always right and the government is always wrong” though?

Yes, government action needs to have publicly, rather than personally, justifiable reasons for their actions. But that’s just as true of people, most especially when their actions effect many others.

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No, it’s not. At least not unless you’re taking a very uncharitable interpretation of what it’s saying and overlooking an obvious interpretation that’s much more reasonable. It’s saying the government shouldn’t be presumed right just because it’s the government. Governments are capable of being right, and they usually are right about a lot of things, but they need to be kept accountable in cases where they’re not.

And people for the most part don’t need to prove any justifications for their actions are valid, because most of their actions don’t require justifications in the first place. Like, what’s your justification for positing on Lemmy? Do you actually believe you need one?

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Justification is easy. Damn near no one does anything they don’t feel is justified. You may not agree with it, but that doesn’t really matter, because the right people will.

A lot of the most evil shit in history was done by people who felt completely justified in doing it.

Justification is a stupidly low bar.

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You’re missing the point. We don’t need to justify to the government why we need to do anything. The government needs to justify to us why it should be prohibited. Feeling justified in your own actions doesn’t come into it.

As for “the most evil shit in history”, it should be extremely easy for the government to justify prohibiting it.

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I say go the other way. Fucking people are trash and need to be babysat like fucking toddlers. Government is the only sensible people trying to keep it all together

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Government is the only sensible people trying to keep it all together.

That’s pretty funny, does that include your political enemies?

From my pov government is “just people” like the rest of us, they just happened to be elected by a bunch of trash toddlers to be “head trash toddler #24.”

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That’s called authoritarianism and it’s really unpopular for a reason.

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Government is horrible at policing individuals. Name one instance where involving the government in peoples daily lives has had a net positive impact. I’m not talking about social services either, I’m talking authority that has gone into the home and “baby sat” individuals.

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To any reasonable person it is extremely easy to justify prohibiting easy access to firearms. And yet here we are, with mass shootings happening every other day in the US.

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Isn’t it inherently cringe to claim your own things based?

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You think this is OC? You must be new here.

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Of course, OP even went through the effort of making it all blurry so it looked like it was recycled content! /s

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