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Augmented capabilities are different capabilities. Your inalienable right to free expression only exists for certain definitions of expression. It does not extend to incitement to crime, revealing classified information, deceptive commercial speech, misleading investors in a public corporation, etc. You have (in my opinion!) an inalienable right to have a pistol, but not to have a hydrogen bomb.


How would you derive exactly where the line should be between a pistol and a hydrogen bomb? If you can build one, you should be able to have one no?


No, you should not. We draw the lines wherever we think we want them. If you think the line is in the wrong place, you bribe a legislator to move it, or vote, or something like that.




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