4 ms·
>It’s like studying the social impact of vaping without considering the replacement activity (smoking). That's not how this works. If you ban vaping, not ever
by Arainach 9mo ago
>It’s like studying the social impact of vaping without considering the replacement activity (smoking).
That's not how this works. If you ban vaping, not everyone - and not necessarily most people who vape - would be smoking instead.
"X isn't as bad as Y" is not a good argument in favor of X. They can both be bad.
- teekert 9mo agoAaaacckkkktuuaally, at my kids school vaping is now an epidemic of sorts. It's much cheaper, it's cool, you get it easily via Snapchat. Many kids later pick up smoking (anecdotally).
- n4r9 9mo agoI don't think this detracts from OP's point.
- AllegedAlec 9mo agoIt's the same kind of bad line of argumentation we disputed for decades with banning piracy (implicit assumption that every pirated copy was a sale lost).