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I don’t think saving people from themselves is a good way to frame the problem. To me, it’s more a question of whether we’re going to allow businesses and even
by munchler 3y ago
I don’t think saving people from themselves is a good way to frame the problem. To me, it’s more a question of whether we’re going to allow businesses and even the government itself to prey on vulnerable people.
- hombre_fatal 3y agoAgreed. That framing is what changed my opinion on it over the years. It's easier as a discussion about what we should allow people to make money doing in our society. "Freedom of choice" is a distraction from whether we should allow someone to get rich selling the means of addiction and destruction to vulnerable people.
- Teever 3y agoI think that's a great way to think about it. You can extend it further and say that the reason this is bad is because you're giving the kind of people who have no qualms with preying on strangers like that the resources to prey on bigger prey. We don't want those kinds of people to have the kinds of resources to match their unseemly ambitions.
- bsder 3y agoWhat changed my mind was that people are up against a department of PhDs who are actively attempting to use psychological research to subvert responsible behavior. That's reprehensible. And it needs to be controlled by laws.