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TruthAndDare | 9 years ago

> Do you wish to live in a human society?

As far as I can see, that is orthogonal to the issue at hand.

> all this law does is to impose the costs on those who incur it.

We might consider littering to be immoral, and might therefore feel that we have a right to prohibit others from doing it, but it does not follow that we have a right to prohibit people from using, selling, owning or manufacturing bags (or fine or tax them for doing those things).

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collyw|9 years ago

Do you feel the same way about theft? Immoral but it doesn't follow that we have the right to prohibit people doing it?