Unlimited campaign finance
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2024
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non-consensual advertising (consensual being things like steam discovery queue, where I actively want to be advertised to), "lobbying" (bribing), fossil fuels and friends, gerrymandering (US), the electoral college (US), publically trading your company
Most advertising is non-consensual, but I'm still whole-heartedly in agreement. One could argue that ads that are shown to a person consuming media without paying (podcasts, YouTube, etc), are kinda consensual.
AI. And PoW-based cryptocurrency.
Rich people and cops breaking the law.
They should make it illegal to break the law
The selling of personal information.
Surprised to see no one has said cigarettes yet. Not only are you poisoning yourself, it's harmful to everyone else around you that has to inhale that shit.
In the same vein, driving gas cars
I would vastly prefer that gas cars be phased out. But I believe that this is a bit different:
Cigarettes don't offer any benefit beyond making you "feel good." And you don't need cigarettes to feel good, and, in fact, literally any other option is better for both you, and everyone around you, save for harder drugs.
Gasoline cars, while poisonous to the world around us, also offer us far greater benefits: supplies and logistics, we can carry goods further, wider, and faster than we ever could without them. And because of that, without them, sure we'd pollute a lot less, but then we'd have a far harder time carrying critical resources to more remote parts of the world where trains and planes can't reach, and people would starve or lack critical medicine.
As it stands, EVs are not a reliable substitute. They're getting there, I want them to get there, but I disagree with the notion that cars should be made illegal as things currently stand. I don't think it's nearly as cut and dry as cigarettes are. I can only hope to live long enough to see a world where gas powered cars could be outlawed without leaving hundreds of millions of people high and dry.
People are allowed to make their own decisions. Heroin should be legalized. /s
This thread: what do you think should be illegal, but isn't?
Me: Answers, as asked
Everyone: how dare >=(
I dunno that your comment is edgy.
Anyway, there are some good reasons to ban very addictive drugs. And riding motorcycles without helmets. It is an interesting ethical discussion that starts with the observation that self-destruction and death affect more than one person.
Alcohol. It's more dangerous than it seems.
Over and over again we have to have the discussion about how alcohol consumption has been a massively important social practice across the planet for thousands of years, and despite the significant health effects, prohibition always does more damage because people do not accept being told that they aren't allowed to imbibe.
Alcohol has been linked to early onset Alzheimer's and drunk driving is a major cause of death.
Iβm personally not a fan or alcohol. But I do think itβs just a βpeople are gonna want itβ kind of thing. I think it should be regulated in a way that discourages abuse and boosts local economies.
I see modern alcohol companies just funneling money out of communities (especially on weekends). Stuff like wines coming out of vineyards might be one thing, but global conglomerates selling cheap beer worldwide is definitely another.
I wonder if it would be beneficial to regulate tobacco and alcohol products so that they were produced locally and thus harder to get, with lower marketing budgets, and limited supply. The added perk is that the money stays in the community.
When traveling in south asia like Thailand or Indonesia I was a little disappointed that it was that much more expensive relative to everything else. Like it was a hardcore drug or something.
Yeah eastern countries just don't have the same relationship with alcohol that the west does.
Gambling, however...
In the US slavery should be illegal since ages but isn't yet.
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