Advertising, alcohol, tobacco, meat production, online gambling, excessive daily gaming are all net harmful and yet here we are. Just because something is (co

Advertising, alcohol, tobacco, meat production, online gambling, excessive daily gaming are all net harmful and yet here we are. Just because something is (considered) harmful to society doesn’t mean that it is right of the government to use monopoly of violence to prevent individuals from it. Some things, of course, but it is not sufficient. Lest you’re looking at a moralizing authoritarian government as a good thing.