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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 372: Greene New Deal
xp1337 04/29/21 6:42:45 PM #239:	HeroDelTiempo17 posted... Fair enough, I can see that. But I both think this is a bad goal and bad way to go about it. As fuming pointed out, if you want to regulate tobacco companies go for it but there are more effective ways to go about it. There probably are. It's a big reason why I said I wasn't hard committed to either side in this argument. I'm sympathetic to the goal of eliminating tobacco/nicotine cigarette smoking for public health reasons but I'm also very cognizant that is likely an unattainable goal in any practical sense (it just going underground/black market) and that even potentially well-intentioned efforts can have unintended side-effects (the disproportionate effects of this on minority communities; let's leave aside the matter of whether this was unintended or not.) I also don't have the head for delving into the necessary research and listening to voices I have some trust in to form an educated opinion. Definitely think there's been some projecting some ill intent on Tony that wasn't there, but also I think some of the undercurrents Tony threw back at them like suggesting this was some "Oh, so you think black people can't help themselves and need the government to do so" on their part was uncalled for as well. =/ --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? <cite>xp1337 posted [p:953377242] in Politics C... [t:79420969]...</cite> <quote>HeroDelTiempo17 posted... </cite> <quote>Fair enough, I can see that. But I both think this is a bad goal and bad way to go about it. As fuming pointed out, if you want to regulate tobacco companies go for it but there are more effective ways to go about it.</quote>There probably are. It's a big reason why I said I wasn't hard committed to either side in this argument. I'm sympathetic to the goal of eliminating tobacco/nicotine cigarette smoking for public health reasons but I'm also very cognizant that is likely an unattainable goal in any practical sense (it just going underground/black market) and that even potentially well-intentioned efforts can have unintended side-effects (the disproportionate effects of this on minority communities; let's leave aside the matter of whether this was unintended or not.) I also don't have the head for delving into the necessary research and listening to voices I have some trust in to form an educated opinion. Definitely think there's been some projecting some ill intent on Tony that wasn't there, but also I think some of the undercurrents Tony threw back at them like suggesting this was some "Oh, so you think black people can't help themselves and need the government to do so" on their part was uncalled for as well. =/ --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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