[KarlInOhio]

These pods are also a prime example of what Adam Thierer calls “permissionless innovation,” where new solutions and discoveries are born without explicit regulatory blessings.

Which is why the left wants a society where everything is either required or prohibited, without room for freedom of choice.

[metmom]

Right?

Like we have to have permission to think for ourselves of come up with creative solutions for the problems we face?

Screw that.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

the left wants a society where everything is either required or prohibited, without room for freedom of choice.

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;

the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.

The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.

The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . .
For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest . . . — Thomas Paine,Common Sense (1776)

The identity of “society" with “government" is the extinguishment of freedom. Even back in the middle of the Eisenhower Administration, I had a teacher give an assignment whose purpose turned out to be for him to proclaim “We like to say society when we mean government.” Even as a high school student I recognized that as a socialist formulation. But I did not then have knowledge of that quote from Common Sense.