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This is also like saying that making food widely and cheaply available encourages overeating which causes obesity, which is bad, so we should ration food.


You could say that providing subsidies that make unhealthy processed food artificially cheap tends to increase obesity. In fact, I think that that's the consensus view of experts on the issue.


That argument is about not giving bittorrent traffic first priority, and not offering AK-47 scholarships.


I have no doubt that there is a would-be authoritarian (or two) out there proposing precisely that.




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