The ethics of light

We do not oppose every prohibition because
we worship freedom.

We oppose blind prohibition because it often makes society stupid.

• It teaches people not to look.
• It confuses silence with safety.
• It mistakes punishment for understanding.
• It pushes knowledge into private hands.
• It lets rumours replace evidence.
• It makes harm harder to measure.
• It gives the worst actors more room.

But we also reject the opposite stupidity: the idea that everything technically possible should be allowed.

No.

• Some things should be stopped.
• Some things should be regulated.
• Some things should be studied without being practised.
• Some things should be named dangerous without being turned into myth.
• Some things require collective refusal.

The question is not whether society has boundaries.
It must.

The question is whether those boundaries
produce light or darkness.