You can't really talk about "big kid choices" given how addictive nicotine is, how cigarettes are marketed to actual kids, and affects on others (like secondhand smoke). Yeah, paternalism is bad, and yeah, individuals should have wide latitude about what to do to their own bodies, but this isn't sober 35-year-olds making rational choices with full access to all relevant information. Believing anything along those lines is just buying into free market mythology. We shouldn't ban smoking altogether, and we shouldn't try to reduce consumption in ways that just end up taxing poor people, but we should be looking for ways to reduce consumption, or at least move the decision to consume closer to an informed decision.
And obviously they should be addressing the root causes of why people start smoking, too, but an ideal solution would treat the root causes and existing symptoms.
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You can't really talk about "big kid choices" given how addictive nicotine is, how cigarettes are marketed to actual kids, and affects on others (like secondhand smoke). Yeah, paternalism is bad, and yeah, individuals should have wide latitude about what to do to their own bodies, but this isn't sober 35-year-olds making rational choices with full access to all relevant information. Believing anything along those lines is just buying into free market mythology. We shouldn't ban smoking altogether, and we shouldn't try to reduce consumption in ways that just end up taxing poor people, but we should be looking for ways to reduce consumption, or at least move the decision to consume closer to an informed decision.
And obviously they should be addressing the root causes of why people start smoking, too, but an ideal solution would treat the root causes and existing symptoms.
Did you really just reply just to reiterate what I said?
Read what I wrote, you tell me.
Lets see, whinging about making fun about Bloomberg and biden's names, then a whole bunch of fluff that repeats what I said.
Not jumping in on the argument in general but yeah, changing ghouls' names like that is definitely lib shit.
no that's chud shit get it straight ya lib
This has been a Chapo bit for ages.
Copmala, :top-cop: , Liz the Snake :warren-snake-green: , and Pete the rat :pete:
We do it because it's funny.
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Friends, friends, you're both liberals. No need to argue
okay, I'll compromise in agreement to this.