• calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Because I fucking hate walking around the city and having to hold my breath because there’s a smoker in a 10m radius.

    The same reason that I advocate for the government to not allow people to buy guns.

    • A 10 metre radius, hey? Fucking exaggeration, much.

      The argument for taking away guns is because by taking away the individual liberty to own a gun you are increasing the total liberty of people to not get shot.

      It’s all about the level of acceptable risk. If you were to use your rational brain to think about this instead of your emotions you would come to the realisation that cars are more dangerous than people smoking on the street, so perhaps we should ban all cars.

      And if you’re at a pub and you don’t like people smoking, perhaps you can go somewhere else. Fucking walk inside. Leave the smoker section. It’s not that fucking hard.

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        2 months ago

        By taking away the liberty of one person smoking, you are increasing the liberty of all the people around them to breathe in clean air.

        Cars at least provide a purpose. We take the risk of having cars because they are very convenient. What is the benefit of smoking? The only benefit is calming the effects caused by not smoking while having a smoking addiction.