re: #136 Rightwingconspirator

The way I tend to think about is: governments have a duty to ensure that a certain minimum standard of living is met by people under their jurisdiction, a standard which is set by those people.

As long as local laws/regulations/customs don’t interfere with that minimum standard, they are essentially OK. If they do, then the next level of government up has the right to intervene.

Of course, a lot of the disagreement comes from questions of whether a given law causes harm to people, or not.