Pornography is legal. Alcohol is legal. Owning guns is legal. Swearing is legal. Being dishonest is legal. Choosing to rent rather than own, or to invest in property other than real estate is legal. Choosing not to marry is legal. Yet you are OK with government policies that push people either into or away from these actions, not for legal grounds but because the government approves or disapproves of them. Why is it OK for the government to essentially ban swearing on broadcast TV yet not OK for them to try and ban terrorist videos on youtube? And would your objection suddenly disappear if they simply passed a law saying that they could ban terrorist videos on youtube?
I didn’t tell you what you preferred: I asked. And I asked about broken-windows in particular because these are two styles of policing that are seen as being in tension. And you’ve said that you have no problem with the government doing anything to enforce laws, which is what zero tolerance is all about: complete enforcement of all existing laws, including for trivial offences.
