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> it's a really strange form of hypocrisy. It's totally sane when looked at through one lens, and asinine when viewed through the other. From a societal point
by mywittyname 4y ago
> it's a really strange form of hypocrisy.
It's totally sane when looked at through one lens, and asinine when viewed through the other.
From a societal point of view, banning these products makes sense. They don't add value to the world, but they cause a lot of damage. The people who feel they are flipping the bill for the damaged caused don't see a reason that they have to pay it. The costs can be abstract, like increased medical costs, but they can also be direct, say, your child gets hooked on one of these and suffers some sort of medical complication.
From an individual perspective, then banning these products seems ridiculous. It's pretty common for people to believe that they aren't impacting others with their choices (which is wrong), or they acknowledge the negative impacts, but they just don't care.
Generally speaking, if you want to maintain a freedom, it is advisable to not bother other people with your activity.
- throwaquestion5 4y agoYour first view is sane only on an individual, isolated basis. If you step back and see that a particular e-cig is banned while the original (and the causes for this type of product) is still legal, then any sane argument gets throw out of the window. If legislators wanted to remove causes of societal damage, they would ban the use of nicotine on cigarettes, that have the biggest share of nicotine consumption.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoSo why not ban actual cigarettes? Why only Juul?
- mywittyname 4y agoBecause millions of people were smokers and that necessitated a long-term strategy for dealing with cigarettes. And that strategy is basically, increase taxes on them a little bit every year until they become so damn expensive that people quit using them and they are de facto banned. Juul is new enough that the blunt approach will work. Plus, it's not a plant that grows all over, making a black market for them less likely to spring up.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoYou can always to what new zeland did, and ban them for people born after year X (2008 in NZ) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59589775 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59589775 Yes, yes, black market and all that, but that's true for vapes too. And drugs.