I have been arguing the past week over whether freedom means the ability to choose just what is good or whether I am not really free unless I can choose evil. My primary sins are coffee, tea, beer, THC, and porn. If my agency to indulge myself were taken away I would be less free. Part of the issue is a political and legal one. I don’t think just because something is considered a sin by some people justifies taking away the choice. For me all real sins are assaults against agency. I cannot legally justify murder or rape because the one eliminates the victims agency altogether and the other destroys agency temporarily and makes the victim doubt sometimes for the rest of their life whether they have agency at all. Porn worries me because I worry that I am interfering with the actresses agency. But THC should be legal as alcohol and coffee and tea are. Imposing on my ability to access them interferes with my agency.
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