Angelus said:
Ok...... 1. Food, healthy or otherwise is a necessity. We all have to eat to survive, but people like different things, and also have varying budgets in terms of the quality of food we can afford. So of course we have free choice in what we eat. Smoking is not a necessity. 2. Food, healthy or otherwise stimulates our taste buds. We eat things that we perceive to taste good. Cigarettes are disgusting. This is a fact. Nobody who picks up a cigarette for the first time perceives it as an enjoyable experience. It is a habit developed purely out of one form of pressure or another. And as for how lazy or physically active a person chooses to be, of course we can't influence that. Are you actually trying to draw a parallel between that and banning harmful substances?
Let me make something clear, if people want to smoke, so be it. Nobody can stop you if you really want to smoke. Likewise, if you live in the US, and really want to buy a gun and shoot yourself, nobody can stop you from doing that either. That's an extreme example, but the point is that when people really have their mind set on something, they will always find a way to do so. Does that mean we should make the harmful choices particularly easy to follow through on? I hope not |
Were not making it easy for people by treating people considered adults as by the law as adults. If you want to ban 18 year olds from smoking then you are making the distinction that they cannot be expected to make responsible decisions and are therefore not capable of being considered adults in the eye's of the law. Also many people would argue that they find unhealthy food's disgusting or that they don;t smoke cigarettes for the taste but rather the effect and it come's down to (for me at least) saying that it's their body, their fucking decision. If you don't like the decision's they've made well too bad for you cause it's not your buisiness.
This is the Game of Thrones
Where you either win
or you DIE
