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I honestly agree with you, but am worried about the precedent it would set. If you start banning stuff because of addiction, does it apply to things like soda o
by Raidion 5y ago
I honestly agree with you, but am worried about the precedent it would set. If you start banning stuff because of addiction, does it apply to things like soda or fast food? Would it apply to things like baseball cards or other collectables?
This is a really tricky problem, as there is clear evidence that these things hurt society as a whole, but it's hard to draw the line who is making deliberate choices about their gambling/smoking/drinking, and who is hooked.
Is there a politician somewhere that will try to ban Facebook because of the 'addiction' potential? I'm usually not much of a slippery slope guy, but it does seem weird, especially since a lot of this would be done by regulation, not legislation.
- animal_spirits 5y agoIdk people say its hard to draw the line but it doesn't seem like it would be. Here's the line: no advertising for cigarettes, alcohol, gambling, e-cigs. Why this line? these are pretty obviously unhealthy for people. Why not some other line? Well lets take a poll and see what we are willing to do. And then if people think it is important to ban other types of advertising then that can be a new line drawn later.
- lupire 5y agowhat about cryptocurrency? stock trading? American football (concussions)? Cars?
- animal_spirits 5y agoWe don't have to make a blanket statement that covers all cases. I don't see how this is a slippery slope when there is so much friction to get even one of these industries banned from advertising. Do you really think politicians will ban CAR advertisements? Let's be reasonable about this EDIT - Okay I think I see a concrete reason why gambling advertising should be illegal. The gambling industry makes money by negatively affecting people i.e. gambling wins if you lose. That's literally it. The gambling industry does not make money when their users win. They are specifically advertising so that more users lose. The car industry makes money by providing you a utility. The car industry is not advertising so that more people die in car crashes. But gambling on the other hand _is_ advertising to get more people to lose.
- mardifoufs 5y agoE-cigs? If you don't use shady THC oil juice from overseas, there is absolutely no proof that they are more dangerous than, say, smoking weed or even obesity. The lung injury incidents that made the news 2 years ago were due to illegally imported juice that was contaminated with vitamin E IIRC.
- animal_spirits 5y agoMany middle schoolers are becoming addicted to nicotine because they think smoking a juul is "cool" because of the sleek Apple-like advertising they have put out over the past 5 years. That is why I think they should be banned from advertising. It is the exact same thing as what happened with cigarettes in the 60s and 70s.
- wolverine876 5y agoIt's not like we don't have experience with making gambling illegal.
- UncleMeat 5y agoI actually think it should be illegal to advertise soda.
- mod 5y agoDo you really think it should be illegal? Or do you just think that making it illegal would probably show some benefit to the average person's health?
- UncleMeat 5y agoI think that our society is sleeping on the effects advertising has on people and we should take a really hard look at how we permit corporations to attempt to change people's behaviors, in particular for products that are known to contribute seriously to massive society-wide problems like obesity.