• dismalnow@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    And when the government can effectively prevent massive amounts of benzene from going into the air, they are more than welcome to work on the trace amounts of nicotine.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not a zero sum. You can be against both.

      That argument sounds like someone whining about car accidents while setting themselves on fire… one does not make the other okay.

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        One is clearly worse, can be stopped, and isn’t bullshit.

        The other is whiny bullshit, and your analogy sucks.

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        But people aren’t against it. They are against cigarettes and vaping because they don’t like them. Alchohol? Totally fine. Pills? Goochie. Caffeine? Can’t live without it. And if it’s a matter of smell, then when are we making not showering illegal? Also, axe body spray, perfumes, incense, and any other form of non-consensual smells?

        These things will never be banned because people like them. The same argument applies, but it doesn’t get railed against because they don’t bother you.

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      1 year ago

      We should only make beating others illegal once we successfully prevented all murder

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        It’s about ease of enforcement. If you can’t enforce a law, it’s bullshit lip service.

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      You’d be right, but those trace amount of nicotine are often going straight into our faces for the crime of being downwind of someone smoking/vaping without a care in the world.

      Health effects aside, I’d appreciate not having to breath in or smell other people’s second-hand smoke/vape.

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        There’s more nicotine in your average pasta sauce than you’ll absorb by following a vaping person for an hour. I know you’re talking about a principle… but it’s not a very strong argument.

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          Okay, assuming that’s true, when I eat pasta with sauce, the person next to me doesn’t end up ingesting my pasta sauce.

          When you smoke/vape, the people are forced to inhale your exhaust as they breath (which we don’t really get a lot of choice in doing).

          It’s like saying because you got an X-ray you shouldn’t worry about bathing in the sun for too long.

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            You’re breathing the same air they are, whether you can see it or not…

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            You missed the point. More accurate would be: because you watched TV for an hour you shouldn’t worry about someone shining a flashlight on you. That’s the level of consequences we’re talking about and it sounds ridiculous when someone blows them out of proportions. Maybe we should start worrying about anal residue too because people are farting outside.

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          It does go both ways, but saying “my body, my right” when what you’re doing has a physical, unhealthy effect on the people around you I’d argue is more selfish than my wanting you to stop.

          Imagine if people just stood outside of buildings constantly coughing and spluttering germs at you whenever you walked past. You’d want them to stop, no?

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          I’d argue the people blowing their exhaust onto passers by are more selfish, considering the passers by don’t get a choice in breathing, but sure I’m the selfish one.