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AleksS

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19. This is worth repeating!

Reply to SharonAnn (Reply #9)

Thu Mar 20, 2025, 12:49 PM

Mar 2025

Literally everything you do is a personal choice--however, when making that choice, you are personally choosing the consequences as well. The consequences are part of the choice. The effects on others are part of that choice. And when you affect others, that personal choice, becomes something that those others have a vested interest in, and the state has a role in preventing the exercise of your personal choices from harming others. That's literally the main reason there is a government.

What's that old saying? Your right to move your fist through the air stops at the point where my nose starts.

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RFK Jr. is spewing childish libertarian nonsense Vaccines are not a "personal choice." [View all] Historic NY Mar 2025 OP

Describing someone as a "childish libertarian" is redundant. sop Mar 2025 #1

Seeking a fantasy world that will never exist lame54 Mar 2025 #3

Libertarians remind me of nothing so muchas toddlers... 3catwoman3 Mar 2025 #10

I used to say, "If you're still reading 'Atlas Shrugged" after your acne cleared up... NNadir Mar 2025 #12

Perfect! erronis Mar 2025 #15

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It seems his job is to... lame54 Mar 2025 #2

Yes, sorta like Disaffected Mar 2025 #11

Yeah, but only in small doses. NT mr715 Mar 2025 #14

Teeny-weeny doses. erronis Mar 2025 #17

A type of haircut is a personal choice. Vaxes should never be referred to as such. SheltieLover Mar 2025 #4

Vaccines are "personal choice" SCantiGOP Mar 2025 #5

If they are "personal choice", then the consequences are also "personal choice". Banning from schools, public places, e SharonAnn Mar 2025 #9

This is worth repeating! AleksS Mar 2025 #19

I feel the same way. Choices have consequences. patphil Mar 2025 #22

The predator, just like his cousin described him to be. Passages Mar 2025 #6

FAUX (false) libertarianism. The fakes avoid liability, responsibility, accountability. By those ye shall know them. .nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #7

He's nothing but a PE. Public Embarrassment. calimary Mar 2025 #8

repukes want to take away our choice on things that matter... cadoman Mar 2025 #16

Christofascism is such an oxymoron. BattleRow Mar 2025 #23

And yet this rfkjr vaccinates himself and his family. erronis Mar 2025 #18

of course he does Skittles Mar 2025 #24

Does he really, though? ShazzieB Mar 2025 #26

He needs to stop, but he won't. maxsolomon Mar 2025 #20

When it affects everyone else around you, it's not a personal choice IronLionZion Mar 2025 #21

Exactly! ShazzieB Mar 2025 #27

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Cleaned up link Celerity Mar 2025 #28

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