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I also want to speak to vaping overall. "should not be" covers a ton of activities medical people would prefer we don't do. What you are doing here is attempt
by ddingus 4y ago
I also want to speak to vaping overall.
"should not be" covers a ton of activities medical people would prefer we don't do.
What you are doing here is attempting to put additional weight behind your moral assessment of vaping by implying it's more dangerous than it actually is.
I suggest your opinion would carry far more weight when bolstered with the many potent, rational arguments against vaping, all of which I personally agree with. Those are all true, do not require manipulation in the form of misrepresentation; namely, overstating risk either.
Misrepresenting things is how we get bad law and bad norms. People do not respect bad law and tend to reject bad norms. Look at the whole theft argument used for media works. What actually happens is people infringe, and had we actually discussed all that word means, we would likely have better law today and people with a far better understanding of the issue. But theft sells, and is a sexy, if untrue argument very similar to the one you are making about vaping right now.
This means you may actually do more harm than good, despite obviously well meaning and in your view, considerate intent!
And no judgement here. I am not going to tell you what to do or say. Nor should I.
That is all, just wanted to put a different take here and ask you to think about all that some.
- idiotsecant 4y agoI don't think anyone is making a moral assessment of vaping, just a quantitative one. Vaping is bad for you. It is less bad for you than smoking cigarettes.
- jlmorton 4y agoThat's not a quantitative assessment, that's a qualitative assessment, and that's what the other commenter is objecting to. If you quantify the risk associated with one activity as 100, and you quantify the risk of another activity as 5, and you then describe the first activity as bad, and the second as less bad, while that might be perfectly true, you've lost a lot of information in the assessment.