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As has been repeated many times before, it's hard to protect people from themselves while at the same time allowing them to be independent and free. Many thing
by djoldman 6y ago
As has been repeated many times before, it's hard to protect people from themselves while at the same time allowing them to be independent and free.
Many things people put into their bodies hurt them in the long run and sometimes the more the faster. Should we prevent them from doing it? In the US, we mostly say no.
It seems to me that most Americans are ok with that.
- thatcat 6y agoIn other parts of the US we mostly say Yes, except for alcohol and cigs.
- sesuximo 6y agoI think this is true. But there are some ways I think the US inadvertently creates a culture of getting drunk rather than a culture of drinking e.g. many states allow zero underage drinking (so ppl illegally do it anyway and to excess) and we make every other drug illegal (again, depends a bit by state). Maybe these restrictions do more good than harm. But they definitely do some harm.