• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        I understand that nothing I say will change your mind, which is why I didn’t provide an argument. But I don’t think it’s the government’s job, place, or right to tell people what they can and can’t put in their own bodies.

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          11 months ago

          I don’t think it’s the government’s job, place, or right to tell people what they can and can’t put in their own bodies.

          Nope. That’s the job of people who’ve worked their entire lives studying how to prolong our lifespan and improve our health; and those people advise the people we trust the most to guide our work, safety and consumer products regulations.

          “Mom and dad have too many rules” was kinda lame when it was about wearing a toque. You need to understand it better by now.

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            11 months ago

            Alcohol is bad for you too. Are you going to ban that? Marijuana cigarettes also contain tar. Ban those too? Excessive screen time is unhealthy. Go after that next?

            The government has no place as the arbiter of what unhealthy habits are legal. The government works under a philosophy of incrementalism. If you task them with making unhealthy behaviors illegal, then you’re embarking on a road to outright fascism.

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              11 months ago

              Alcohol is bad for you too. Are you going to ban that?

              I wish they did. My father died of alcoholism.

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            11 months ago

            Fuck my lifespan and my health if it means my body isn’t my own to rule. Is anyone gonna argue with “my body my rules”? I’m feeling a little rapey.

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      11 months ago

      What benefit is there to allowing the sale of cigarettes when there are much safer nicotine delivery methods out there? If you want to roll your own you could still do that if this were to pass