Something I should say more often

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I was referring to legal rights pertaining to equal treatment according to the law, the same marital and adoption rights and taxation etc.

I'm a big fan of this. The government can't have different policies for different people.

What exactly do you mean by making consent legal?

One example is legalizing psychadelics for medicinal use. That allows the doctor, consumer, supplier, and other relevant parties to legally consent commercially on the selling/buying of the psychadelics.

Another example is that it is not legal for most people in the US to purchase catastrophic-only health insurance. That's the kind I want to buy, and it's a kind companies offered to people like me before the government made it illegal. The mechanism by which it is illegal is the government reducing what people are allowed to consent to.

A third example, I'll pull directly from an industry I work in, and it's the city governments that reduce the legal consent.

We contract with consumers to provide a service, but the contracting parties are not allowed to consent unless the city government is in on it. The government takes time and money away from the business, which is all passed on to the consumer. Over a life time, this one policy probably costs each person living in the city $500-1000.

If we were to attempt to provide the service that all parties consent to without having the city government in on it, the city government would shut the business down and be able to throw us in jail if we attempted to continue working.

You're probably thinking, well, what does the city government actually do? Is it for safety? The answer is no, not for safety.

They justify their policy by saying its for consumer protection, but the policy literally has nothing to do with consumer protection. They go to the job site, briefly look at something "for safety" that has no effect on safety, collect their $100s, then wait for the next time people in the city try to enter into a mutually consenting agreement so they can say it's illegal unless it includes giving them $100s again.

For this service, typically all contracting parties prefer to consent without the government involved, but that's illegal and the consumer has to pay for it.