| ▲ | kelseyfrog 15 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> I vehemently insist on the right of my fellow humans to smoke. You still have the right to bodily autonomy. What sellers don't have is the right to sell something that kills their clients and has obvious consequences en mass. Just grow your own tobacco, cure it, process it, and roll your own cigarettes. Think of it like building your own Linux distro. You always had that ability, but didn't exercise it. Now you can. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | sir0010010 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An important caveat I would argue is that your fellow citizens' bodily autonomy gives them the right to prevent you from smoking if it would cause them to breath in the toxic, addictive and carcinogenic smoke you would be producing secondhand. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | justsomehnguy 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Just grow your own tobacco, cure it, process it, and roll your own cigarettes. Just grow your own grapes, ferment them, distill them, and bottle your own whiskey. Just raise your own cattle, slaughter them, butcher them, and prepare your own steak. Just raise your own cows, milk them, pasteurize the milk, and produce your own cheese. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | cucumber3732842 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Acting like "well we're not banning it, we're just regulating it to the point that it's a non starter for 99.99% of people effectively acomplishing the same thing" isn't a ban is just calling people stupid with extra steps. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||