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Man you literally just had the whole but about race to the bottom and negative externalities woosh right over your head.

There are some behaviors that are banned because paradoxically by allowing you the liberty to do that, everyone’s liberty is negatively affected.

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Whos liberty is effected if you and I play slave farm until one of us screams uncle?

Everyone who now has to deal with that being an option on the negotiating table. It being banned removes it from the discussion.

I am having a hard believing you’re acting in good faith if you’re arguing it’s immoral that you can’t sell yourself into slavery

That some may agree to slavery-until-i-say-uncle is far less threat to liberty than some democratic oppressor that picks and chooses what consenting adults may agree to based on what hypothetical options might end up on the negotiating table of other consenting adults.

Respectfully, no it’s not. Go read up on game theory

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