re: Unpopular opinion:vices like alcohol and gambling should be stigmatized

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But are said people really causing me no harm???

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Everything has externalities. Someone voting democrat has significantly more impact on me than local miscreants being same in their home or stumbling down the street. Once they break into my home, however? That's different. You just can't really be legislating morals. Criminalize more directly criminal acts and let a healthy society take care of the rest.

That's more risky, shall we say, but it's freedom. And I trust people to regulate people more than legislators and bureaucrats.