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Everything is bad for your body. At what level of danger do we start banning it (for adults)? Is vaping safer than alcohol?

oceanplexian 4y ago
Obesity kills more people than even smoking old fashioned cigarettes, so in my opinion it's all a farce. The government doesn't care about your health, they care about taking your money.
- daenz 4y ago
  We've made it deeply unpopular to discourage obesity in society.
- Dylan16807 4y ago
  Obesity is much harder to deal with. You can't stop eating food.
daenz 4y ago
>Everything is bad for your body. Slippery slope. Just because everything is some degree of bad, it doesn't mean there are very large differences in the degree of bad. Reasonable people are able to draw lines between those degrees and be roughly in sync with each other. The philosophical exercise of saying everything is bad is not very interesting to me.
- ziddoap 4y ago
  >Just because everything is some degree of bad, it doesn't mean there are very large differences in the degree of bad. Says the guy that said: >Both are still bad for your body and we shouldn't be encouraging them Have you stopped to use your own logic for a second, and maybe conclude that encouraging smokers to quit via vaping (if they cannot otherwise) would be a good thing? Because they have very large differences in the degree of bad?
  - daenz 4y ago
    If you read my other posts, you'll see that I only learned in this thread that many vapers are ex smokers. I was speaking from the perspective of young non-smokers picking up vaping.
    - ziddoap 4y ago
      >If you read my other posts, I tend to avoid reading usernames when replying, so I possibly read them but did not realize that they were also written by you. If you've refined your viewpoint based on other comments here, specifically in regards to vaping as a smoking cessation, my reply was not necessary.
- t-writescode 4y ago
  > The philosophical exercise of saying everything is bad is not very interesting to me. That is why I, explicitly, pointed out alcohol, which is something that's currently legal and is known bad for people in, basically, any quantity.

oceanplexian 4y ago

Obesity kills more people than even smoking old fashioned cigarettes, so in my opinion it's all a farce. The government doesn't care about your health, they care about taking your money.

daenz 4y ago
We've made it deeply unpopular to discourage obesity in society.
Dylan16807 4y ago
Obesity is much harder to deal with. You can't stop eating food.

daenz 4y ago

>Everything is bad for your body. Slippery slope. Just because everything is some degree of bad, it doesn't mean there are very large differences in the degree of bad. Reasonable people are able to draw lines between those degrees and be roughly in sync with each other. The philosophical exercise of saying everything is bad is not very interesting to me.

ziddoap 4y ago
>Just because everything is some degree of bad, it doesn't mean there are very large differences in the degree of bad. Says the guy that said: >Both are still bad for your body and we shouldn't be encouraging them Have you stopped to use your own logic for a second, and maybe conclude that encouraging smokers to quit via vaping (if they cannot otherwise) would be a good thing? Because they have very large differences in the degree of bad?
- daenz 4y ago
  If you read my other posts, you'll see that I only learned in this thread that many vapers are ex smokers. I was speaking from the perspective of young non-smokers picking up vaping.
  - ziddoap 4y ago
    >If you read my other posts, I tend to avoid reading usernames when replying, so I possibly read them but did not realize that they were also written by you. If you've refined your viewpoint based on other comments here, specifically in regards to vaping as a smoking cessation, my reply was not necessary.
t-writescode 4y ago
> The philosophical exercise of saying everything is bad is not very interesting to me. That is why I, explicitly, pointed out alcohol, which is something that's currently legal and is known bad for people in, basically, any quantity.