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Alcohol is an addictive habit and is behind over 50% of domestic violence but prohibitionist takes like yours never seem to recommend bans on the actual harmful
by 0xy 4y ago
Alcohol is an addictive habit and is behind over 50% of domestic violence but prohibitionist takes like yours never seem to recommend bans on the actual harmful substances in society like alcohol. Why is that?
Voluntary gambling should be banned, but alcohol and Big Macs are fine despite the terrible societal consequences?
It's why I can't take arguments for prohibition seriously, it's always reactionary and ignores the major elephants in the room.
140,000 dead every year from alcohol. 280,000 from obesity.
Gambling is less than 20,000.
- jstarfish 4y agoWe have to draw the line somewhere. Extracting everything possible from a host without killing it is literal parasitism. Whatever their kill count, guns, alcohol and cheeseburgers at least have some other useful purpose. Gambling's "fun" is an exploitative artificial construct only realized under finite conditions. A cheeseburger provides calories whether or not you're hungry. How much "fun" is gambling when you're broke?