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You could say the same about cheese, coffee, cars, alcohol, etc. How about having to put a picture of a pregnant woman being run over on the hood of every tesl
by conanbatt 7y ago
You could say the same about cheese, coffee, cars, alcohol, etc.
How about having to put a picture of a pregnant woman being run over on the hood of every tesla, to remind about the murderous and gruesome reality of the manslaughters of the autoindustry?
The difference is not the product, its the popular sentiment that legitimizes a terrible overreach of state power.
- code_duck 7y agoAs far as the overall utility to harmfulness ratio, I'm sure cigarettes lose compared to those products. It's like comparing crack to cell phones. Yes, they are both somewhat addictive. However, one has demonstrable utility, and the other doesn't, even for narcoleptics. The discussion of whether the use of state power to regulate products is appropriate is a potentially lengthy political discussion that isn't worth starting here.
- 300bps 7y agoYou could say the same about cheese, coffee, cars, alcohol, etc. No. Cigarettes have no positive purpose. They are 100% negative and a society is well served by discouraging their use. Everything you listed has a positive purpose with the mere potential of being misused.
- conanbatt 7y agoYou can usually plot people's beliefs on what deserves punishing imagery with this convenient formula: Uses it: don't punish Doens't: punish