Mrebo said:
As Jay said this isn’t difficult to understand. He and I both pointed out that national change has often happened because states had freedom to act.You used slavery as a really bad example, I remember that. States wanting to legalize or outlaw slavery is what started the Civil War.
Slavery is a perfectly fine example of how state autonomy brought about the end of slavery. It’s only an extreme example because it necessitated war.
What necessitated the war was the state autonomy. Look up the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Another example was gay marriage. Another appears to be marijuana, a subject near and dear to you. It’s staring you right in the face why state autonomy is preferable to a national law that criminalizes it.
Nothing is near and dear to me. State autonomy is better than a national law that criminalizes it, but if it’s not federally illegal, then fascist states criminalizing it are definitely not better.