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Corporate america markets just about everything based on race and the people wonder why there are racial divisions. You can say similar things about fast food

by _8j50 4y ago

Corporate america markets just about everything based on race and the people wonder why there are racial divisions. You can say similar things about fast food or payday loans. My opinion is the blame is misplaced, actually there shouldn't be any blaming. A smoker is not a victim. An adult willingly started a harmful addictive habit. The state has no authority to regulate this. It may save lives to ban harmful substances but a government does not exist to save lives. When you buy a cigarette you are well warned of the dangers right there in the box, it is not the government's place to prevent people from enganging in risky behavior because regulating people private decisions is beyond its authority. The government however can regulate when such a behavior affects others like where you smoke, require you to pay insurance for the inevitable medical care you will need and require tobacco companies to advertise against their own product if they wish to sell it. From cigarettes to fentanyl, it is not a government's place to prohibit a substance.

workingon 4y ago
This seems strange because the government has been regulating what I’m allowed to do with my own body for awhile now, and keep coming up with new ones in fact. But get out the pitchforks when they try to tell multinational corporations to stop selling death sticks to children!
- _8j50 4y ago
  Children are under parent/guardian supervision and they cannot make risk assesment and accept risk it makes sense to age restrict risky items. What I said obviously speaks against your own body as well. The fact is if you have a secular government and a democratic one at that they lack authority to do many of the things they are doing. They exist to govern liberty not enforce world views and keep people from hurting themselves. Democracy should be like Unix, if you decide to shoot yourself in the foot it should enable you to do it in the most efficient way possible.

by _8j50 4y ago

workingon 4y ago

This seems strange because the government has been regulating what I’m allowed to do with my own body for awhile now, and keep coming up with new ones in fact. But get out the pitchforks when they try to tell multinational corporations to stop selling death sticks to children!

_8j50 4y ago
Children are under parent/guardian supervision and they cannot make risk assesment and accept risk it makes sense to age restrict risky items. What I said obviously speaks against your own body as well. The fact is if you have a secular government and a democratic one at that they lack authority to do many of the things they are doing. They exist to govern liberty not enforce world views and keep people from hurting themselves. Democracy should be like Unix, if you decide to shoot yourself in the foot it should enable you to do it in the most efficient way possible.