life is pain, highness

[jedusor]

The Safe, Sane, Consensual vs. Risk-Aware Consensual Kink debate kind of applies to politics, if you think about the underlying values behind the semantics. Theoretically, there's the SSC school of thought, which advocates an ideal regulatory environment but can't seem to settle on realistic operational definitions for those regulations, and then there's the RACK approach, which places both power and responsibility on the individual. But in practice, most people basically just want fairness and personal satisfaction, and case by case, we're all trying to nudge the rules closer to letting us have them.

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Well, but the tricky bit is always where you fall on that risk-aware and consensual axis. How much freedom do you really want? How much safety net? In a perfect world, we'd all like for the system to be ever so slightly biased towards being able to walk away from our mistakes and live right, with a low built-in cost of failure, but that's competing with working to live instead of living to work, and the whole notion of being able to go home at the end of a forty hour work-week and not care about it when they go home.