and i think this might actually be my strongest single political belief: that the world must be "tolerant" in some way, and that the optimal number of broken laws is not zero.

can you imagine what a fucking tragedy it would have been if drugs actually ceased to exist when they were outlawed?

do you think that, at a stroke of a pen, a powerful man should be able to define away an entire category of human experience? i don't! i will never believe this! even when it's a very, very unpopular opinion to hold. in the limit this includes such things as "murder should exist"

but, back to the subject of culture: we are forever blessed by the people who sometimes do not take the threat of legal punishment seriously enough and sometimes do what society needs them to do, rather than what society says they should do. this applies to so, so, so many things

and i will encourage moderation in all things. taken to extremes i know that this is a self-destructive mindset. but, look, sometimes i have it in me to be brutally honest, and that's what i'm being for once