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VoiceOfRa comments on [Link] Death with Dignity by Scott Adams - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 21 May 2015 04:00:40AM 2 points [-]

Rather, wedding cakes are a single example of the more general idea "lwas have to prevent people from being forced to do things in general".

So, how does this apply to your comment here?

Comment author: Jiro 21 May 2015 04:19:22AM *  0 points [-]

Doctors are an unusual case because doctors have a legal monopoly over prescribing drugs. If the available doctors refuse to prescribe a drug, nobody else can do it instead without violating the law. There usually aren't legal monopolies over cake-baking.