Originally Posted by
eagleatr
So based on that standard should we ban driving to save lives? Prohibit smoking? Sugary drinks? Fatty foods? Power tools because people get hurt or killed?
Like Demolition Man, anything not good is bad, and therefore illegal?
So based on that standard are we allowed to have any laws? Isn’t society always balancing the needs of the many with the rights of the few? From the Jacobson v. Massachusetts opinion:
“But the liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States to every person within its jurisdiction does not import an absolute right in each person to be, at all times and in all circumstances, wholly freed from restraint. There are manifold restraints to which every person is necessarily subject for the common good.”