Edit: lol I appreciate all the Nintendo fans, but I don’t think people understood the assignment. I see a lot of things that would still be crimes and/or are ethical.

Also, obviously 99% of regulations affect the wealthy, and at the end of the day they will just have more power.

If all federal regulations are going away, what’s the best way to abuse the Tragedy of the Commons before my neighbor does it to me? Or is it truly the case that there are zero federal regulations that affect normal people?

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    I was going to say armed insurrection, but on second thought that might be ethical under those circumstances.

    Unethically probably the most gain could be in manufacturing fake medicine. Cheap inputs, expensive prices.

    Ah, in fact, even better for repeat customers: Making real medicine and selling the hard stuff over the counter (assuming drug schedules are “regulation”).

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        Fair point, but without regulations your claims can be way wilder, and you don’t have to make stuff safe to ingest anymore. Overall I think quackery can become even more profitable.

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        (homeopathy) n. a complementary therapy based on the theory that ‘like cures like’. It involves treating a condition with a tiny dose of a substance that in larger doses would normally cause or aggravate that condition.

        No, I think they mean actual medicine my guy, based on science. If it’s “homeopathic” and it works, we just call it medicine.

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      Yea, organized resistance is both ethical and the only real option that isn’t nihilism.

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    Move to a red state. Put up an activity as harmful as possible to humans while keeping it legal and making sure to remember everyone at every moment that you are doing this because there are no regulations.

    You can’t convince a maga to stop voting trump with words, but you can force them if their only other option is dying for the lack of regulations.

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      Open a paper or animal feed factory in residential area and instead of trying to mitigate the smells to the public, amplify them.

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          Unaliving a nazi who wants thousands or even millions of people death is unethical? I’m going to disagree.

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            Which is why I wrote technically, I don’t disagree that we’re better of without certain people.

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              I’m not some anti-censorship SovCit nut or anything…but any platform that doesn’t let me say “kill” is not a platform I want to be on.

              Hell…suicide, abortion, murder, rape…we need to talk about these things sometimes. If users want to opt-in to trigger word filters, by all means. It should be up to the user if “Rape” and “Musk” are in the same category and shouldn’t show up on their screens.

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    I’ve spent a career in places with very little rule of law or effective governance.

    The only thing that can give you a sliver of hope is to physically be close to a community that is tight-knit and competent homesteaders. This is African village rules. Force and money are all that matters. Life is cheap. Food is scarce and untrustworthy unless you farm it yourself. Cities are nightmares of abuse with pockets for the super-wealthy behind walls.

    Real life examples like Lagos are hard to explain to Americans. Parable of the Sower gets close and is a book worth a read.

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    Those regulations exist for a reason. Be the reason.

    I don’t mean “do the thing”, make it clear to them why the thing was banned. If you don’t know, look into your history books.

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    Create a buisness in the US to facilitate any illegal activity you want, but physically leave the country for your safety

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    It’s cute that you think anyone but the richest people and biggest corporations will be deregulated.

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      Yup, this is classic “we’ll abolish the EPA but your 8 year old still is forbidden from running a lemonade stand.”

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    I work for a big corp that already ignores their own regulations :) I’ll start opening products, pissing in them, and putting them back on the shelf. It won’t help anything but I’ll personally enjoy it