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[–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Bypassing DRM for personal use

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 41 minutes ago

How is that illegal?

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

gender affirming care for trans children

[–] infinite_ass@leminal.space -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Give children the right to buy alcohol too.

[–] styxem@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

More give doctors the right to treat their patients

[–] RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee 7 points 8 hours ago
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 30 points 18 hours ago
  • Drugs

  • Prostitution

  • Abortions

[–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 60 points 1 day ago

Pirating of otherwise unavailable media.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago
[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 19 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Sex work is real, dignified work that contributes to civilization.

Unlike being a landlord.

[–] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I've definitely been fucked by a few landlords, but it's not a service I'd recommend to anyone else.

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Taking food when you have no food

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Dumpster diving. Doesn’t matter if it’s food or merchandise. It should be illegal to lock a dumpster or willfully destroy usable goods.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Locking dumpsters is important in some areas so wild life dosen't get into them. To quote the National Parks service,

"There is a significant overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest humans".

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago

Most businesses lock the dumpsters because trash service is expensive, and if you don't lock them people will pull up with a pickup bed full of trash and fill them up.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You've never had to repeatedly clean trash slurry off of a concrete slab because junkies are terrible people who have no manners. If people could be trusted to not redistribute the trash across the land I wouldn't mind so much

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

If capitalism could be trusted not to put valuable items in the trash, it wouldn’t be a problem.

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, so getting things out of the trash could be legal, but making a mess from a dumpster should have consequences

[–] gerbler@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Enforcing that would take a lot more money than a padlock.

A better idea would be to charge businesses for the downstream costs of externalities like waste. Make them self-enforce by making it more expensive to dump recyclable or reusable materials.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Euthanasia/medically assisted suicide.

The cruelty to force people to stay alive while slowly dying and suffering with terminal diseases is horrible. It’s traumatic for everyone involved, and it’s pointless.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

We give animals more dignity in death than we do humans.

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[–] Femcowboy@lemm.ee 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Prostitution. Keeping it illegal makes it so much worse for everyone involved except human traffickers.

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[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 66 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Abortion. No specific circumstances needed. If a woman wants an abortion, it should be allowed. There is no one getting late term abortions that didn't want the child and something tragic happened and now they need one.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a caveat to the last sentence, it's definitely possible for women to not know they're pregnant until very late in the process. There have even been women who only found out they were pregnant when they went into labor.

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago

Actual marriage equality.

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 98 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Sleeping in a car that you own.

I think there should be restrictions on where to park for this, but in general people found sleeping in cars should be protected by the law against theft and harassment.

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 40 minutes ago

I don't think it's illegal, but rather where you park can make it illegal.

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 79 points 1 day ago (20 children)

Weed (not legal in all states)

Most hallucinogens (at least for medical or supervised use)

Being trans (lotta states trying to ban me)

Being gay (they're probably next)

Abortion (many states ban this now)

Free healthcare (not technically illegal, per se)

Being homeless

Polyamory (not technically illegal afaik, but there are a lot of legal benefits that married couples get which aren't extended to polyamorous relationships due marriage being restricted to couples only)

The list goes on because while there are many basic things that aren't technically illegal, the system is set up in a way to fuck you because of the required profit motive behind offering basic necessities in a capitalist society.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Poverty, being unhoused.

Felons should have the right to vote.

Seeking gender affirming care.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 hours ago

Wait a minute, felons can run for president but can't vote who to be president?

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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 1 day ago (21 children)

The right to end one's own life.

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[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For now all I can think of are drugs (every single one, including opioids) and euthanasia (not just for terminal diseases, should be available for everyone who decides to).

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