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I find amusing how HN cheers on governments bullying the tobacco industries as far as forcing them to sell smokes with corpses on the packaging, while downvotin
by throwaway82251 3y ago
I find amusing how HN cheers on governments bullying the tobacco industries as far as forcing them to sell smokes with corpses on the packaging, while downvoting any dissenting opinion, but when it comes to drugs that actively ruin hundred of thousands of people's lives to the point years of rehabilitation are often not enough to fully recover, suddenly they love drugs.
Contrarianism? Or is it something to do with political affiliation?
Personally I think prohibitionism was a step in the right direction.
- shagmin 3y agoAre you possibly conflating hard drugs like crack with drugs like marijuana? I don't see people going to rehab over marijuana or even psychedelics.
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoI find it amusing how people can equate sending people to prison for their choice of drug to regulating product packaging.
- rkuykendall-com 3y agoThere is no contradiction here. Tobacco is legal and nobody is trying to make it illegal. Tobacco has very clear and present health risks which were lied about for decades and nobody is arguing we should lie about the health risks of other drugs. Nobody wants a "Don't you want to smoke what your doctor smokes" ad for weed.
- broscillator 3y ago[flagged]
- JimtheCoder 3y ago[flagged]
- LocalH 3y agoAlcohol is the only one of the drugs under discussion which actually ruins "hundred of thousands of people's lives".
- goodbyesf 3y ago[flagged]
- iancmceachern 3y agoNo contradiction, Tobacco is objectively bad for people, these things are a blessing, and have been our whole existence on this earth.