nimpnin

Bringing a person into existence for your own entertainment is the ultimate form of pointless hedonism

They can try all they want. I see that occasionally on the websites people sell their stuff on. But usually even those people are willing to sell for a reasonable offer if their ad has been up for a long time.

I am against the death penalty out of principle, not practical reasons. It goes fundamentally against rehabilitation, its effect differs from person to person drastically, it's just weird and vengeful. And making exceptions for edge cases is not good for a justice system.

So what if you do this instead: consistently enforce, say, 10 year prison sentences for murder as a CEO. This kind of stuff would stop overnight. But that doesn't happen unfortunately.

What does that mean in practice?

In my country, a lot/most of the second hand selling is done by normal people

Depending on the type of product there may be several times the necessary amount already laying around.

Maximizing personal freedom shouldn't be the only goal, yes. But not letting people choose whether they live or die is minimal personal freedom to me. Or it should be, like the bare minimum.

I am of the complete opposite opinion. Not letting people decide if they want to live or not is the ultimate restriction of personal freedom. I think there should be some kind of process for euthanasia for practical reasons cause most people will eventually feel they want to keep on living, but for those who don’t there should be a right to die.

that's such a pedantic point

There was this one study that found that people have significantly fewer close friends than 30 years ago, and for men, the change was larger. I would call that a loneliness epidemic.

What the hell

A proper all-encompassing conscription would be kinda insane. Drafting a percentage of people like they do in sweden might be reasonable. AFAIK they don't actually have to force anybody to go to the army in sweden though, they have enough volunteers, but the system is set up so that in theory they can.