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And those laws are completely unjust. It is absurd to place an obligation on someone to protect people who are trespassing on the owner's property. If you are poking around someone else's home, it's on you if you get into something that hurts you.


> it's on you if you get into something that hurts you.

So if you're a 3 year old child that wanders into a neighbor's yard and drowns, it's on you?

We know young children wander where they're not supposed to go, despite their parents' best efforts to supervise them.

So we do our best to legislate safety regulations when they can be low cost and high reward, like preventing children from falling into pools and drowning. We can't do everything, but when it comes to pool fencing the benefits seem to obviously and greatly outweigh the harms.


Even the self-proclaimed bastion of libertarianism, the US, has laws against booby trapping, so that is obviously not true.




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