This is just the continuation of the "public health crisis" excuse to ban something people don't agree with. Smoking, Sugary drinks, guns, etc. The slippery slope continues.
Not yet, but in UK it seems that the restricted areas keep proliferating. There's a park near my work that just put up "this is a smoke-free zone" signs, and this is in the open air. Ridiculous. But I digress.
But we try to keep minors away from them.
And there's the real problem. It was always the shop worker that was the gatekeeper to bar tobacco, alcohol and porn from minors. It wasn't a perfect system and everyone knew workarounds but it was good enough to appease the majority. Now the porn is readily available as digital media and there has bee
You've got to be joking. Consider this: The air initially exists free of smoke, and cigarettes are not natural, this is the most basic state. I have the right to not be forced to breathe cancer inducing air from someone who chooses to pollute their own body with such things. If you are smoking in a common area, that is free to anyone, then you are taking away that freedom. I'm not taking away your freedom, the most basic state of the park was free and open air - you smokers are imposing your own will on tha
You've got to be joking. Consider this: The air initially exists free of smoke, and cigarettes are not natural, this is the most basic state. I have the right to not be forced to breathe cancer inducing air
I guess you don't drive cars nor buy anything online that would come to your home by truck, nor travel by airplane.
This argument doesn't really apply either. The person isn't saying you can't ever smoke, they're saying smoke in private. Nobody likes manufacturing pollution either, and we regulate it accordingly, it's not as simple a solution as banning public smoking.
The logic has been outlined above. There are ratios of harm/benefit for all things, and there exists a certain point which most people accept or reject.
Smoking has a greater harm benefit ratio than a car. Do you understand that now?
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This is just the continuation of the "public health crisis" excuse to ban something people don't agree with. Smoking, Sugary drinks, guns, etc. The slippery slope continues.
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Cigarettes haven't been banned. But we try to keep minors away from them.
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Cigarettes haven't been banned.
Not yet, but in UK it seems that the restricted areas keep proliferating. There's a park near my work that just put up "this is a smoke-free zone" signs, and this is in the open air. Ridiculous. But I digress.
But we try to keep minors away from them.
And there's the real problem. It was always the shop worker that was the gatekeeper to bar tobacco, alcohol and porn from minors. It wasn't a perfect system and everyone knew workarounds but it was good enough to appease the majority. Now the porn is readily available as digital media and there has bee
Re: slippery slope (Score:5, Insightful)
You've got to be joking. Consider this: The air initially exists free of smoke, and cigarettes are not natural, this is the most basic state. I have the right to not be forced to breathe cancer inducing air from someone who chooses to pollute their own body with such things. If you are smoking in a common area, that is free to anyone, then you are taking away that freedom. I'm not taking away your freedom, the most basic state of the park was free and open air - you smokers are imposing your own will on tha
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You've got to be joking. Consider this: The air initially exists free of smoke, and cigarettes are not natural, this is the most basic state. I have the right to not be forced to breathe cancer inducing air
I guess you don't drive cars nor buy anything online that would come to your home by truck, nor travel by airplane.
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Or use anything that created/manufactured at all either....
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This argument doesn't really apply either. The person isn't saying you can't ever smoke, they're saying smoke in private.
Nobody likes manufacturing pollution either, and we regulate it accordingly, it's not as simple a solution as banning public smoking.
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The person isn't saying you can't ever smoke, they're saying smoke in private.
As soon as he drives his car in private. Inside his home.
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He probably has an electric car.
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I'd like to think so, but I stopped believing in people's coherence in socio-political stances a long while ago.
Re: slippery slope (Score:1)
Smoking has a greater harm benefit ratio than a car. Do you understand that now?