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Do we as a society even need acid drinks?
by SoKamil 3y ago
Do we as a society even need acid drinks?
- ricardobeat 3y agoIf you’re going down that path, all we need is water. Human needs go beyond the physical.
- LeoPanthera 3y agoDo we as a society even need [alcohol|nicotine|cannabis|refined sugar|fat|salt]? Maybe not. But I refuse to believe that you asked that question in good faith, because we're obviously going to have all of them. People should be free to live as healthily or as unhealthily as they choose.
- sixstringtheory 3y agoPeople should be free to live as unhealthily as they choose as long as the problems they inevitably create don’t negatively affect other people. Activities high in negative externalities should be prohibitively expensive to help pay for remediation, and the opposite should be positively reinforced, even subsidized. A stitch, in time, saves nine.
- Turing_Machine 3y agoI'm pretty sure more people have been killed by governments with too much power than have ever been killed by drinking straws.
- rayiner 3y ago> But I refuse to believe that you asked that question in good faith, because we're obviously going to have all of them. People should be free to live as healthily or as unhealthily as they choose. Why? Especially in a country with government-subsidized healthcare?
- Jweb_Guru 3y agoWe don't need a lot of things. A better example than plastic straws is beef: we definitely don't need beef, it's already expensive, and it has an extremely large and disproportionately heavy impact on CO2 consumption due to the combination of required grain, methane release, and needing land for cows incentivizing cutting down rainforest. Most people here would be pretty up in arms about any proposal to ban beef, so why focus on comparatively harmless stuff like lipstick and soda?