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Well yes of course. Social acceptability is in fact super important for doing anything in a democracy. Women voting, gay marriage, are other examples of things
by Eddy_Viscosity2 4y ago
Well yes of course. Social acceptability is in fact super important for doing anything in a democracy. Women voting, gay marriage, are other examples of things which at one point were not socially acceptable, even though they violated the stated goals of liberal democracy, but eventually and over time became social acceptable and ingrained into law. This is just how it works.
- CrypticShift 4y ago> Social acceptability is in fact super important Yes, It is. The issue is that this acceptability is more often the result of propaganda (in the general sense of influencing public opinion.) than scientific/logical diligent public discourse. Yeah, I know. As you already said too, "This is just how it works."
- ceejayoz 4y agoI mean, if we're talking about propaganda, we probably need to include decades of the tobacco industry pushing it in movies, advertisements, denial (including under oath in Congress) of the health impacts, etc.
- CrypticShift 4y agoWe do. The problem is that tobacco is often singled out. It is the easy target. What about the food industry ? [1] (yes again.) We need to attack other harmful products with a proportional acharnement to that we applied to tobacco. That was my first aim in all this (downvoted) affair. [1] https://www.healthline.com/health/sugar/big-fat-lies-sugar-propaganda https://www.healthline.com/health/sugar/big-fat-lies-sugar-p...