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How is it a net negative for society that some people enjoy something?

• mistermann 4y ago
  Smoking, and thus e-cigarettes, seems to have become a culture war issue. The plausible post-hoc rationalized reason that people didn't like cigarettes is because they are extremey unhealthy - now that the topic of discussion is e-cigarettes, which have little evidence of being significantly unhealthy, and people still seem to despise them suggests that there is something much more interesting going on sub-perceptually.
  • robocat 4y ago
    Wild theory: perhaps some people for their own reasons don’t like being around people vaping. I put up with it like I accept that people fart. Being around “vape smoke’ is something between discomfort and disgust (smell, smoke, etcetera), Ugggh. Yes: I have close friends that vape. No: I don’t complain to them or make faces or anything. Even if I were hypothetically shown it was a purely nonsensical psychological dislike, that doesn’t mean I could stop disliking it.
    • mistermann 4y ago
      > Even if I were hypothetically shown it was a purely nonsensical psychological dislike, that doesn’t mean I could stop disliking it. I think there is great value in considering this possibility, and all others. The problem I am trying to get at is that people have a tendency to not be terribly interested in what is true.