• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        1 year 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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            1 year 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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              1 year 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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            1 year 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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      1 year 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