How about you parent your kid instead of trying to get the government to parent everyone else's? What the hell is you and everyone else's problem who want to get into other families' business.
It’s just easier to do some things if they’re prohibited by law. If you don’t want children to smoke, not selling them ciggarettes is a great first step.
You can't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
If you are not doing this same thing to every comment trying to remove my freedom, which then will call me some label for disagreeing with COVID policies or whatever then I can't really take any of the guidelines seriously. I was here when it was all about segregating the ones who disagreed from life, even denying healthcare while still forcing them to pay taxes.
We're way past fake politeness when the discourse is always pro war, pro xenophobia for certain acceptable targets (e.g. Russia), pro disparaging certain alleged ideologies/parties (e.g. US republican).
2020-2021 happened and there's been no apology. Till then, the biased moderation rings hollow.
That's bullshit. When the comments are on some rep Vs dem issue where the tagline is correctly "my body my choice" suddenly it's all good but here, it's fine to keep trying to remove every bit of freedom because someone refuses to parent their children. Give me a break.
I'm calm. I'm just not taking the bullshit propaganda without calling it what it is.
You want to come for MY freedom. Don't be surprised if I push back.
Disgusting intrusiveness and authoritianism.